Background
Ketterle, Wolfgang was born on October 21, 1957 in Heidelberg, Germany. Arrived in United States, 1990, permanent resident.
physicist university professor
Ketterle, Wolfgang was born on October 21, 1957 in Heidelberg, Germany. Arrived in United States, 1990, permanent resident.
Diploma in Physics, University Heidelberg, 1978. Master of Science in Physics, Technology University Munich, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, 1986.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, 2005.
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. In 1976 he entered the University of Heidelberg, before transferring to the Technical University of Munich two years later, where he gained the equivalent of his master"s diploma in 1982. In 1986 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental molecular spectroscopy under the supervision of Herbert Walther and Hartmut Figger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, before conducting postdoctoral research at Garching and the University of Heidelberg.
In 1990 he joined the group of David East. Pritchard in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (RLE).
He was appointed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics faculty in 1993 and, since 1998, he has been John Doctorate. MacArthur Professor of Physics. In 2006, he was appointed Associate Director of RLE and began serving as director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Center for Ultracold Atoms.
Ketterle is also a runner featured in the December 2009 issue of Runner"s World"s "I"m a Runner". and in 2014, in Boston, ran a personal record of 2:44:06. Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education ( Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment"s flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Ketterle"s own son Jonas attended in 2003.
Fellow: Institute Physics, American Academy Arts & Sciences, Optical Society America, American Physical Society (I.I. Rabi prize 1997). Member: National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), German Academy Natural Scientists Leopoldina, German Association Higher Education (honorary), Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences Heidelberg, European Academy of Sciences & Arts, German Physical Society (Gustav-Hertz prize 1997).
Married; three children.