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William Daniel Phillips

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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Daniel Phillips is the 280th most popular physicist (up from 301st in 2019), the 1,333rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,430th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Daniel Phillips ranks 280 out of 851. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Claude-Louis Navier, Daniel Rutherford, John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, and Mihajlo Pupin. After him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Peter Mansfield, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, and Ash Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, William Daniel Phillips ranks 70. Before him are Ian Paice, Arie Haan, Bille August, Ian McEwan, Hartmut Michel, and Siim Kallas. After him are Ray Kurzweil, Carl Weathers, Valentin Ceaușescu, Edwige Fenech, Amadou Toumani Touré, and Tom Wilkinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Daniel Phillips ranks 1,333 out of 20,380. Before him are Helen Wills (1905), James B. Conant (1893), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Horatio Alger (1832), and Jon Bon Jovi (1962). After him are Carl Spaatz (1891), Mr. T (1952), Willie Nelson (1933), Mark David Chapman (1955), John Updike (1932), and Mary Jackson (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, William Daniel Phillips ranks 63. Before him are Julian Schwinger (1918), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), David J. Wineland (1944), John C. Mather (1946), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), and David Gross (1941). After him are Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), and Henry Way Kendall (1926).

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