biography
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Phillips, William D
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| male
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He graduated in 1976 from MIT, joining the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. In 1997 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his contribution to the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. |
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