
Phillips, William D.
1948 Born in Pennsylvania on November 5.
1970 B.S., Juniata College, Pennsylvania
1976 Ph.D., MIT
Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms; Bose-Einstein
condensation of cold atomic gases; Collisions and
photoassociation of ultracold atoms; Quantum information
with atomic qubits; Cold-atom atomic clocks
1978~ Physicist, National Institute for Standards and
Technology (NIST)
1990~1996 Fellow and Group Leader, National Institute for
Standards and Technology
1992~2001 Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Maryland
1997~ Member, National Academy of Sciences
2001~ Distinguished University Professor, University of
Maryland
2002~2003 George Eastman Visiting Prof., Balliol
College and Clarendon Laboratory, Dept. of Physics,
University of Oxford
1987 Samuel Wesley Stratton Award of the National Bureau
of Standards
1988 Arthur S. Flemming Award of the Washington Downtown
Jaycees
1993 Gold Medal of the Dept. of Commerce
1996 Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (APS)