William Daniel Phillips | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | MIT Juniata College |
Known for | Laser cooling |
Awards | Nobel Prize in physics (1997) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | NIST University of Maryland, College Park |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Kleppner |
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.