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Daniel Kleppner | |
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| Born | December 16, 1932 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Williams College (BA) University of Cambridge Harvard University (PhD) |
| Known for | AMO physics |
| Spouse | Beatrice Spencer Kleppner |
| Awards | Lilienfeld Prize (1991) MIT Killian Award (1995-96) Oersted Medal (1997) Wolf Prize in Physics (2005) National Medal of Science (2006) Frederic Ives Medal (2007) Franklin Institute Award (2014) APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Thesis | The Broken Beam Resonance Experiment (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Ramsey |
| Doctoral students | David E. Pritchard[citation needed] William Daniel Phillips[citation needed] Julia Steinberger[1] |
| Website | physics |
Daniel Kleppner (born 1932) is an American physicist who is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include atomic, molecular, and optical physics, and his research interests include experimental atomic physics, laser spectroscopy, and high precision measurements.[2]
Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular textbook An Introduction to Mechanics for advanced students.[3]
- ^ Julia Steinberger (2004). Progress towards high precision measurements on ultracold metastable hydrogen and trapping deuterium (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/28649. OCLC 655586822.
- ^ MIT Department of Physics
- ^ "13 BOOK Recommendations on SPECIAL RELATIVITY!!". YouTube. For the Love of Physics. May 25, 2022. review of An Introduction to Mechanics by Kleppner & Kolenkow, 4:08 to 6:46 in video
