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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and the central city of the Wyoming Valley....
) is an American
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 physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. He is of Italian
Italian people

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 and Welsh
Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language. John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, although Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales far longer....
 extraction and a Methodist.

lips was born to William Cornelius Phillips and Mary Catherine Savino. His parents moved to Camp Hill
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Camp Hill is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle, Pennsylvania Harrisburg metropolitan area....
 (near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city had a population of 48,950, making it the tenth largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania, Scranton, Pennsylvani...
) in 1959, where he attended high school
Camp Hill High School

Camp Hill High School is a coeducational public high school located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Camp Hill School District and is the smallest public high school in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania....
 and graduated valedictorian of his class. He graduated from Juniata College
Juniata College

Juniata College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River — one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River....
 in 1970 summa cum laude. After that he received his physics doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
.

Phillips' doctoral thesis concerned magnetic moment of the proton in H2O.






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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and the central city of the Wyoming Valley....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. He is of Italian
Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
 and Welsh
Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language. John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, although Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales far longer....
 extraction and a Methodist.

Biography

Phillips was born to William Cornelius Phillips and Mary Catherine Savino. His parents moved to Camp Hill
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Camp Hill is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle, Pennsylvania Harrisburg metropolitan area....
 (near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city had a population of 48,950, making it the tenth largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania, Scranton, Pennsylvani...
) in 1959, where he attended high school
Camp Hill High School

Camp Hill High School is a coeducational public high school located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Camp Hill School District and is the smallest public high school in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania....
 and graduated valedictorian of his class. He graduated from Juniata College
Juniata College

Juniata College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River — one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River....
 in 1970 summa cum laude. After that he received his physics doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
.

Phillips' doctoral thesis concerned magnetic moment of the proton in H2O. This led to connections that would be important later in his research. He later did some work with Bose-Einstein condensate. In 1997 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
 (together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a France physicist working at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris....
 and Steven Chu
Steven Chu

Steven Chu, Ph.D , is an United States Experimental physics and currently the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. As a scientist, Chu is known for his research in laser cooling, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997....
) for his contributions to laser cooling
Laser cooling

Laser cooling is a technique that uses light to cool atoms to a very low temperature.It was simultaneously proposed by Wineland and Dehmelt and by Theodor W....
, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology , known between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards , is a measurement standards laboratory which is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce....
.

Phillips is also a professor of physics at University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
.

Personal life

Phillips married Jane Van Wynen shortly before he went to MIT. Although neither had been regular churchgoers early in their marriage in 1979 they joined the Fairhaven United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church is a Christian Church that understands itself to be a part of the one Holy catholic Church of Jesus Christ and the Communion of Saints....
 in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Gaithersburg, Maryland

Gaithersburg is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, Maryland. , the city had an estimated total population of 57,698, making it the fourth largest in the state behind Baltimore, Maryland, Frederick, Maryland, and Rockville, Maryland....
 because they appreciated its diversity. He is a founding member of the . He and his wife have two daughters; Caitlin Phillips (b 1979) who founded , and Christine Phillips (b 1981) who is studying in the UK to be an archaeologist.

During a seminar at the UMCP Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry titled Coherent Atoms in Optical Lattices Phillips stated, "Rubidium is God's gift to Bose-Einstein condensates."

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