Awards & Winners

Daniel Kleppner

Date of Birth 16-December-1932
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Physicist
Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and his research interects include Experimental Atomic Physics, Laser Spectroscopy, and High Presicion Measurements. He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2007 Frederic Ives Medal, and the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Prof. Kleppner has also been awarded the National Medal of Science. Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular introductory mechanics textbook for advanced students. Kleppner graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in 1953, Cambridge University with a B.A. in 1955, and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1959.

Awards by Daniel Kleppner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Daniel Kleppner.

2006


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(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 Einsein Condensation in a gas; and for lucid explanations of physics to nonspecialists and exemplary service to the scientific community.)

2005


Wolf Prize in Physics
(For groundbreaking work in atomic physics of hydrogenic systems, including research on the hydrogen maser, Rydberg atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation.)