He Did What Physics Said Was Impossible - Dr. Bill Phillips
Dr. Bill Phillips won the Nobel Prize in Physics for doing something the textbooks said was impossible - cooling atoms to temperatures colder than outer space itself. Laser cooling, quantum computing, atomic clocks, GPS - and why the biggest breakthroughs come from people who can't stop asking why.
A physicist and Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States, Bill was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for pioneering laser cooling and atom trapping - work that laid the foundation for atomic clocks, GPS technology, and the quantum computers being built right…
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