A NOBEL PERSPECTIVE: A LIVE CONVERSATION WITH NOBEL PRIZE- WINNING PHYSICIST, DR. BILL PHILIPS
The ACerS Colorado section hosted a webinar presented by Nobel prize-winning physicist, Dr. Bill Phillips on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Participants had the opportunity to directly learn from a Nobel Laureate and their own questions. Dr. Phillips covered a wide range of topics — from stress management to confirmation bias to chocolate.
Visit this link to listen to Dr. Phillips’ talk and the question and answer session.
Dr. Bill Phillips graduated summa cum laude from Juniata College in 1970 and studied the magnetic moment of the proton in water as part of his doctoral work at MIT. After joining NIST in 1978, he and others worked on Bose-Einstein condensates and developed methods to cool and trap atoms with light. These methods ultimately earned him, Dr. Stephen Chu, and Dr. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. Phillips is currently Co-Director of the NSF Physics Frontier Center at the Joint Quantum Institute and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
