What is Wolfgang Ketterle?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Wolfgang Ketterle | image = Ketterle.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Wolfgang Ketterle at a symposium at Brown University, 2007 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Heidelberg]], [[West Germany]] | nationality = Germany, United States | fields = [[Physics]] | workplaces = [[University of Heidelberg]]<br>[[MIT]] | alma_mater = [[University of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]]<br>[[Technical University of Munich|TUM]]<br>[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich|LMU]]<br>[[Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Herbert Walther]]<br>[[Hartmut Figger]] | doctoral_students = [[Kendall B. Davis]]<br>[[Marc-Oliver Mewes]]<br>[[Dan Stamper-Kurn]]<br>[[Martin Zwierlein]] | known_for = [[Bose–Einstein condensate]]s | awards = [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] <small>(2000)</small><br>[[Nobel Prize for Physics]] <small>(2001)</small> }} '''Wolfgang Ketterle''' (born 21 October 1957) is a [[German people|German]] [[physicist]]. He is a professor of [[physics]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and [[Laser cooling|cool]] [[atom]]s to temperatures close to [[absolute zero]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/ketterle_wolfgang.html|title = Wolfgang Ketterle|access-date = 27 October 2014|website = MIT Department of Physics}}</ref> He won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2001, together with [[Eric Allin Cornell]] and [[Carl Wieman]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/|title = Nobel Prize in Physics 2001|access-date = 27 October 2014|website = Nobelprize.org|publisher = Nobel Media}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ketterle, Wolfgang}} [[Category:1957 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:German physicists]] [[Category:People from Heidelberg]] {{bio-stub}} {{Nobel Prize in Physics}}