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When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Family
#Home
#Myself
#Night
#Work
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Atoms
#Change
#Dreams
#Gold
#Waves
My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Building
#Moving
#Objects
#Quite
#World
Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Mechanics
#Most
#Phenomena
#Quantum
When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Bicycle
#Challenge
#Long
#Own
#Three
I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Buy
#Children
#Education
#House
#Money
Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Cells
#Easy
#Look
#New
#Physics
Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Auto
#Controlled
#Emission
#Hazardous
After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#After
#Earning
#Hydrogen
#Laser
#Which
Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Confidence
#Done
#Me
#Parents
#Sometimes
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Beauty
#Matter
#Nature
#Never
#Sun
Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Energy
#Motion
#Nothing
#Possible
#Zero
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Me
#Myself
#Patience
#Science
#Work
To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#First Time
#First
#Four
#Go
#Time
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
#Economics
#Giving
#Money
#Prize
#Win
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