Lena Live, February 13, 2014
Lena Live with Elyena Miremonde and VERY SPECIAL GUEST - Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle, Novel Prize Winner!
Guest, Dr Wolfgang Ketterle
Together with physicists Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman, Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating the Bose-Eisenstein Condensate. He is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Dr. Ketterle is from Heidelberg, Germany, and earned his Ph.D in experimental molecular spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.
In 1990 he joined the group of Dr. David E. Pritchard at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).
Appointed in 1993 to the MIT physics faculty, Dr. Ketterle became the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT in 1998.
Dr. Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Dr. Ketterle's own son Jonas attended in 2003.
A passionate athlete, Dr. Ketterle is also a runner featured in the December 2009 issue of Runner's World's "I'm a Runner". Dr. Ketterle spoke of taking his running shoes to Stockholm when he received the Nobel Prize and happily running in the early dusk
Lena Live
The Lena Live Radio Hour has been awarded sponsorship from Calvary Hospital.
We are honored by their support of our programming.
With the Lena Live Radio Hour—hosted by Prof. Lena Miremonde and produced by Julian Lampert—the world's most progressive voices come each week to our program to share the latest from the frontiers of science, medicine, the arts, politics, psychology, and economics.
Our guests have included Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, Professor of Physics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), New York State Senators Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Suzi Oppenheimer, the late UN Ambassador Jerome Shestack, and Carol Roth—CNBC contributor and New York Times Best-Selling Author.
