Daniel
Kleppner
Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006
Physics
For his pioneering scientific studies of the interaction of atoms and light including Rydberg
atoms, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum chaos; for developing techniques that opened
the way to Bose Einstein Condensation in a gas; and for lucid explanations of physics to nonspecialists and exemplary service to the scientific community.
Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.