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Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

by RLE at MIT | Aug 28, 2025 | News Links

The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves. (MIT News) RELATED LINKS Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92 (NYTimes) Rainer Weiss...
Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering by Single-Atom Wave Packets

Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering by Single-Atom Wave Packets

by RLE at MIT | Jul 28, 2025 | News Links, RLE Recent Papers

Vitaly Fedoseev, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), Yu-Kun Lu , Yoo Kyung Lee, Jiahao Lyu, and Wolfgang Ketterle DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zwhd-1k2t Abstract: We study light scattering of atomic wave packets in free space and discuss the results in terms of atom-photon...
Major League Baseball’s “Torpedo Bat” Designed by RLE Alum

Major League Baseball’s “Torpedo Bat” Designed by RLE Alum

by RLE at MIT | Apr 2, 2025 | News Links

Image designed by Sampson Wilcox, Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT The ‘Torpedo Bat’ was designed by Aaron Leanhardt, PhD in Physics, 2003, alumni of Professor Wolfgang Ketterle’s research group.  Related Links: Microtraps and Waveguides...
Physicists arrange atoms in extremely close proximity

Physicists arrange atoms in extremely close proximity

by RLE at MIT | May 3, 2024 | News Links

The technique opens possibilities for exploring exotic states of matter and building new quantum materials. (MIT News) Related Links: Wolfgang Ketterle MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms Department of Physics School...
Center for Ultracold Atoms gets funding boost to “punch through tough scientific barriers and see what’s on the other side

Center for Ultracold Atoms gets funding boost to “punch through tough scientific barriers and see what’s on the other side

by RLE at MIT | Oct 23, 2023 | News Links

  Related Links: MIT professor of physics Wolfgang Ketterle, along with other members of the Center for Ultracold Atoms group, received a major renewal of its NSF Physics Frontiers Centers program grant to fund research that includes conducting experiments...
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