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Wolfgang Ketterle

1957 - Today

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Wolfgang Ketterle (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɛtɐlə] ; born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Ketterle is the 369th most popular physicist (up from 389th in 2019), the 1,786th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,054th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 369 out of 851. Before him are Duncan Haldane, Gaston Planté, Théophile de Donder, Louis Slotin, William Sturgeon, and George F. R. Ellis. After him are Karl Guthe Jansky, Jurij Vega, Vladimir Shukhov, Franz Ernst Neumann, Galileo Ferraris, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 73. Before him are Mario Grech, Christian Schmidt, Subcomandante Marcos, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Cesare Prandelli, and Johnny Lever. After him are Yuen Biao, Robert Harris, Šefik Džaferović, Daniel Stern, Preben Elkjær, and Clive Burr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 1,786 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Parrot (1791), Michael Stifel (1487), Peter Thiel (1967), Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), and Charles the Child (847). After him are Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), Nicolaus von Below (1907), Sebald Beham (1500), Juan José Linz (1926), and Prince Konrad of Bavaria (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 51. Before him are Ludwig Prandtl (1875), John B. Goodenough (1922), Walther Gerlach (1889), Pascual Jordan (1902), Franz Aepinus (1724), and Heinrich Geißler (1814). After him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Friedrich Paschen (1865), August Kundt (1839), and Manfred von Ardenne (1907).

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