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(1948– ),
American physicist and Nobel laureate. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
he was educated at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., and at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his
Ph.D. in 1976. Phillips served on the faculty at MIT from 1970 until 1978
when he joined the Phillips, Chu, and Cohen-Tannoudji shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”
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