Title:

Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Room 26-237

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02139 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2006

Citation:

"For his pioneering scientific studies of the interaction of atoms and light including Rydberg atoms, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum chaos; for developing techniques that opened the way to Bose Einstein Condensation in a gas; and for lucid explanations of physics to nonspecialists and exemplary service to the scientific community."

Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.