Wolfgang Ketterle is remembered in science for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Wolfgang Ketterle as German physicist.
Wolfgang Ketterle was born at Heidelberg in 1957. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Heidelberg University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as physicist, university teacher and physics teacher.
His affiliations include Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Science advances when somebody insists on measuring what everyone else assumed.
His recorded fields of work are physics.
Recognition followed: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2002), Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001) and Nobel Prize in Physics (2001).
Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Wolfgang Ketterle is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg — 2002
- Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 2001
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2001
- Affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Educated at Heidelberg University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Technical University of Munich
- Worked as physicist, university teacher and physics teacher
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