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Wolfgang Ketterle

1957 - Today

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Wolfgang Ketterle (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɛtɐlə] ; born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Ketterle has received more than 234,913 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Wolfgang Ketterle is the 384th most popular physicist (up from 422nd in 2019), the 2,146th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,483rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 384 out of 717. Before him are Ányos Jedlik, Henri Tresca, Robert W. Wood, Lyman Spitzer, Chester Carlson, and Johann Andreas Segner. After him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Philip Abelson, Louis Poinsot, Friedrich Paschen, John Henry Poynting, and Louis Paul Cailletet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 66. Before him are Daniel Stern, Bruce Beutler, Preben Elkjær, Ahmet Kaya, Loreena McKennitt, and Ted Levine. After him are Frank Miller, Mikhail Kasyanov, Fred Vargas, Georgi Parvanov, Jaggi Vasudev, and Thierry Boutsen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 2,146 out of 6,142. Before him are Rudolf Lange (1910), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), Franz Müntefering (1940), Claus Schilling (1871), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784). After him are Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), and Manfred Kaltz (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 57. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Paul Drude (1863), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Franz Aepinus (1724), and Johanna Budwig (1908). After him are Friedrich Paschen (1865), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Walther Meissner (1882), Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865).

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