Wolfgang Ketterle

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Full Name	Wolfgang Ketterle
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1957(1957-10-21)
Age	67
Country	Germany
Birth City	Heidelberg
Horoscope	Libra

Wolfgang Ketterle Biography

Wolfgang Ketterle is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on October 21, 1957 in Heidelberg, Germany. Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German born American scientist and professor of Physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has been focused on studies that capture and cool atoms until they reach temperatures that are close to zero. He also led one of the first teams to develop Bose-Einstein condensation within these systems in 1995. In recognition of this accomplishment along with his initial fundamental studies on condensates, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, along as Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.

Since the year 2011, Ketterle has been married to Michele Plott. He has three children with Gabriele Ketterle who he got married to from 1985 until 2001.

Ketterle has also been a running enthusiast. He was profiled in December’s issue of Runner’s world’s “I’m a Runner”. Ketterle talked about taking his shoes for running to Stockholm after he was awarded the Nobel Prize and happily running in the dusk of early evening. Ketterle finished in 2013 the Boston Marathon with the time of 2:49:16 while in the year 2014 at Boston was able to set an personal record of 2:44.06.

Wolfgang Ketterle Net Worth

Wolfgang Ketterle is one of the richest Physicist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wolfgang Ketterle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ketterle was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, and was educated within Eppelheim as well as Heidelberg. In 1976, he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg, before transfer into the Technical University of Munich two years later. He received the equivalent of his master’s degree in 1982. In 1986, he received an PhD in molecular spectroscopy research under the guidance from Herbert Walther and Hartmut Figger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and then did postdoctoral studies at Garching as well as in the University of Heidelberg. In 1990, he joined the research group led by David E. Pritchard in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT (RLE). In 1993, he was appointed to the MIT Physics faculty in 1993. since 1998, has been the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. The year 2006 saw him became the Vice Director at RLE and then became the director of the MIT’s Center for Ultracold Atoms.

Ketterle is on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) and also participates at the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE’s most renowned program for high-schoolers which is that is the Research Science Institute (RSI) that her son Jonas attended in 2003. Ketterle is a member of the international Scientific Advisory Committee for the Australian ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies.

After achieving Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases in 1995, his group was in 1997 able to demonstrate interference between two colliding condensates, as well as the first realization of an “atom laser”, the atomic analogue of an optical laser. In addition to ongoing investigations of Bose–Einstein condensates in ultracold atoms, his more recent achievements have included the creation of a molecular Bose condensate in 2003, as well as a 2005 experiment providing evidence for “high-temperature” superfluidity in a fermionic condensate.

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Wolfgang Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Wolfgang Ketterle celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.