Daniel Kleppner
Daniel Kleppner (born December 16, 1932 in New York City ) is an American physicist . He is Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and Co-Director at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.
Life
Kleppner studied at Williams College (Bachelor in 1953), at Cambridge University (Bachelor in 1955) and received his doctorate in 1959 from Harvard University . He then stayed at Harvard, where he was promoted to assistant professor, before becoming an associate professor at MIT in 1966. From 1974 he was professor there and from 1985 Lester Wolfe professor. From 2007 he has been Professor Emeritus there.
Together with Norman Ramsey , he developed the hydrogen maser in 1960 , which was later used as an atomic clock with a precision that was previously unattainable. One application of this early work is the GPS system. In the 1970s, Kleppner did pioneering work in the physics of Rydberg atoms .
Honourings and prices
- 1986 - Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society (APS)
- 1986 - Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 - Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the APS
- 1992 - Max Planck Research Prize , together with Karl H. Welge
- 2005 - Wolf Prize in Physics
- 2005 - Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
- 2006 - National Medal of Science
- 2007 - Frederic Ives Medal
- 2007 - Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2014 - Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute
In 1962 he became a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1978 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1986 . From 1988 to 1990 he was secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics .
Books
Together with Robert Kolenkow , he wrote a popular introduction to mechanics for advanced students.
- Daniel Kleppner, Robert J. Kolenkow: An Introduction to Mechanics . McGraw-Hill, New York 1973, ISBN 0-07-035048-5 .
Publications (selection)
- Thomas J. Greytak and Daniel Kleppner: Bose-Einstein Condensation . In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology . 2001, pp. 64-67.
- DG Fried, TC Killian, L. Willmann, D. Landhuis, SC Moss, D. Kleppner, and TJ Greytak ,: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen . In: PRL . 81, 1998, p. 3811.
- TC Killian, DG Fried, L. Willmann, D. Landhuis, SC Moss, TJ Greytak, and D. Kleppner: Cold Collision Frequency Shift of the 1S-2S Transition in Hydrogen . In: PRL . 81, 1998, p. 3807.
- CL Cesar, DG Fried, TC Killian, AD Polcyn, JC Sandberg, IA Yu, TJ Greytak, and D. Kleppner: Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen . In: PRL . 77, 1996, p. 255.
- TC Killian, DG Fried, CL Cesar, AD Polycn, TJ Greytak, D. Kleppner: Doppler-Free Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen . In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Atomic Physics . 1996.
- CL Cesar, DG Fried, TC Killian, AD Polcyn, JC Sandberg, JM Doyle, IA Yu, TJ Greytak, and D. Kleppner: Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen . In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology, Woods Hole, MA . 1995.
Web links
- Faculty website at MIT. with.edu
- Biography at the American Institute of Physics. In: aip.org.
- Interview with Prof. Kleppner. with.edu
supporting documents
- ↑ representation Klepp agent performance as Wolf Prize winner (Engl.)
- ↑ Member History: Daniel Kleppner. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleppner, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |