Archive of past award recipients and lectures
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When Freezing Cold Is Not Cold Enough Wolfgang Ketterle Professor Wolfgang Ketterle, one of the first observers of a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein condensate and creator of the first atom laser, was MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2004–2005. The physicist shared the Nobel prize in physics in 2001 with two MIT alumni for their discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in 1995. Professor Ketterle went on to be the first scientist to realize an atom laser in 1997. Read more at MIT News. |
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Are We Really Made of Quarks? Jerome I. Friedman Professor Friedman, one of a team of physicists who proved these tiny components of the proton are real, said now that the battle of the quark is over, the next step is to learn more about the particle's structure. Does it have a measurable size? And if so, does it have internal constituents? It is conceivable, he said, that the next generation collider, the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which will be completed in 2005, could uncover radically new information about this quirky subatomic particle. Read more at MIT News. |
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Views From a Garden of Worldly Delights Daniel Kleppner The 1995–96 Killian Award Lecturer is Dr. Daniel Kleppner, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics and associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. Dr. Kleppner received bachelor degrees from Williams College in 1953 and Cambridge University in 1955, and the PhD from Harvard in 1960. He was an assistant professor of physics at Harvard from 1962 to 1966, when he joined the MIT faculty as associate professor of physics. He was promoted to professor in 1974. He headed the department's Division of Atomic, Plasma and Condensed Matter Physics from 1976 to 1979. He was named Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics in 1985. Read more at MIT News. |
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Lecture title: The Fruits of the Tree of Astronomy Philip Morrison |
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Lecture titles: Victor F. Weisskopf |
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