Jabarkan Pendidikan dari William D. Phillips

Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, diploma (Valedictorian) 1966.

Juniata College, Huntington, Pennsylvania, B.S., Fisika, summa cum laude, 1970.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D., Fisika, 1976. Menulis tesis di bawah Prof. Daniel Kleppner, berjudul: The Magnetic Moment of the Proton in H2O dan Inelastic Collisions in Excited Na.