| William D. Phillips  AKA William Daniel Phillips
Born: 5-Nov-1948
Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Trapped atoms with laser light Performed his primary work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Father: William Cornelius Phillips (b. 1907)
Mother: Mary Catherine Savino (b. 1913 in Italy)
Brother: Tom (b. 1957)
Sister: Maxine
Wife: Jane Van Wynen (m. 1970)
Daughter: Catherine (aka Caitlin, b. 1979)
Daughter: Christine (b. 1981)
High School: Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill, PA (1966)
University: BS Physics, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (1970)
University: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976)
Scholar: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor: University of Maryland, College Park
Nobel Prize for Physics 1997 (with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1995
National Academy of Sciences 1997
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Italian Ancestry Maternal
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