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William D. Phillips (Fed)
Research Projects
Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms
Atomic-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensates
Quantum Information with Single-Atom Qubits
Awards and Honors
2006 Service to America Award - Career Achievement
2005 Presidential Rank Award
2004 Appointed an Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
2002 NIST Condon Award
2000 Richtmeyer Award of the Am. Assoc. of Physics Teachers
1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" shared with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji