Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first... Wikipedia
Born: 1957 (age 66 years), Heidelberg, Germany
Academic advisor: Herbert Walther
Notable students: Martin Zwierlein, Gretchen Campbell, and Subhadeep Gupta
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology