Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero. 

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.

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