The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
Awarded on: 1997-10-15
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
Affiliations:
- National Institute of Standards and Technology – Gaithersburg, MD, USA
William D. Phillips
Born: 1948-11-05 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physics Nobel laureate (born 1948)
Biography
William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.