A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips (#265)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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NIST Fellow William D. Phillips received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He shared the honor with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Their work combined to create some of the most important technologies of modern atomic physics, which thousands of researchers worldwide employ today for a wide variety of applications. Today, he joins us to discuss time keeping throughout history and breakthroughs on the way to the best clocks ever made! Phillips began his experiments with laser trapping and cooling shortly after he arrived in 1978 at the National Bureau of Standards (the agency that became NIST), with the intent of creating a more accurate atomic clock. Several of his innovations in the following years became landmarks in the field. These included a device using a laser along with a magnetic field to decelerate and cool an atomic beam (the “Zeeman slower”); demonstrating the first device that trapped electrically neutral atoms (a magnetic trap); and measuring a temperature far below that predicted by the accepted theory of laser cooling at the time (known as sub-Doppler cooling). Watch the video with slides here: https://youtu.be/q1cPyE9rAD4 Watch the video with slides here: https://youtu.be/q1cPyE9rAD4 Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3PRMUhxGQkyQzLiiCqlf?si=8656119458df4555 🎧 On Audible it’s here : https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Impossible-With-Brian-Keating-Podcast/B08K56PXJX?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShar Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast - Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I'm here to tell you is that just recently on the 20th of May, which is World Metrology Day
0:15.5	at 2019, we have experienced the greatest revolution in regiment since the French Revolution. Welcome loyal Into the Impossible Podcast listeners to another episode of the
0:31.3	Into the Impossible Podcast, a crossover episode with our other
0:35.0	podcast called Think like a Nobel Prize winner. I'm doing that since
0:40.6	October of 2021. It's our one-year anniversary of running that
0:43.7	podcast. You can find that wherever podcasts are sold. In this week's edition
0:48.1	comes courtesy of friend of the show, Dr. William Bill Phillips who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics for
0:58.0	his discoveries along with Stephen Chu former Department of Energy Secretary, and Claude Coantanuegy in France, the
1:08.2	1997 Nobel Prize was awarded for his many, many contributions to to laser physics, to atomic physics, to
1:18.5	measurement physics, and all sorts of interesting things, but what's so striking about him in this Nobel Prize ceremonial week that just passed and is still ongoing.
1:27.3	The literature prizes, the economics prize is forthcoming by the time you're listening to this and we have we have
1:36.8	so many you know blessings to be thankful for these gracious individuals who will come on the podcast.
1:43.4	We have several more coming up.
1:44.9	In addition to Bill Phillips today, in the next few weeks,
1:48.4	we're going to hear from Huito Inbends
1:50.3	who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics by first non physics Nobel Prize winner,
1:55.2	but even before that, actually you'll get the first non physics Nobel Prize winners
2:00.4	before Huito Imbens is Professor Tim Palmer of Oxford who shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
2:09.0	So that's really far afield from what you're normally listening to.
2:12.0	But with all these folks we get out and
2:14.6	tremendous information not just about the red meat or the white tofu if you're a
2:19.0	vegan for you scientists out there but I always love to distill it for lay people as the title of my second book into the impossible think like a Nobel Prize winner
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