Dr. William Phillips Innovative Lives Presentation
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Total Running Time: 60:00

Discussion continues with how to make a better and taller fountain clock. Phillips shows a diagram of an artist's conception of an atomic clock at the space station. A video of the Nobel Prize Ceremony from Stockholm in 1997 is shown. Phillips explains how the ceremony works and what it was like to receive the prize with his colleagues Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannouudji. Stresses that science is not done in isolation and that he was recognized as a representative of a group. Question and answer period with the students. Questions included: Can you clarify the relationship between the levitron magnetic field and laser molasses? When did Phillips decide to become a physicist and work with lasers? What kind of classes does one take to become physicist? When one slows down the atoms, can they be seen? Phillips emphasizes that science is an international venture.
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content: Phillips, William, Dr., 1948-
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content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Dr. William Phillips Innovative Lives Presentation
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content: Dr. William Phillips Innovative Lives Presentation / Series 1: Original Videos
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content: 2001 April 27
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content: Box 1, Video OV 770.2
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Moving Images