William Daniel Phillips

Also known as William D Phillips, Bill Phillips

physics Nobel laureate

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William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. His discoveries have enabled scientists to study atoms in unprecedented detail and have practical applications in fields like atomic clocks and quantum computing.

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1960

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5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,958x
VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,500x
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,689x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,866x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,718x

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“While in high school, I spent a summer working in a university research lab. The graduate student who mentored me shared this insight: physicists are people who get paid for working at their hobby. For me, that has been a joyous truth. Physicists don’t get paid much, but we sure have a lot of fun. And so, my first wish for you is that, whatever you do, you will work at something you love.”
“I think a lot people had this idea that science advances through eureka moments and it's true to some extent. But my experience has been that it's a lot of really hard work, where finally you have figured out what's going on and you can then move on to the next stage.”

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Commons category: William Daniel Phillips
date of birth: 1948-11-05
Erdős number: 5
name in native language: William Daniel Phillips

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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

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