Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist known for his significant contributions to the field of atomic physics, particularly in the area of Bose-Einstein condensation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, alongside Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, for their pioneering work in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light, which ultimately led to the production of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in the lab.

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Wolfgang Ketterle by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-31
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A physicist who studied ultracold monatomic gases at MIT.[ref]
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Portrait of Wolfgang Ketterle
. Kenneth C. Zirkel (Kzirkel); Brown University symposium, 12 April 2007; revised by the photographer in 2012. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
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