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Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Auto
Emission
Hazardous
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I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Nobel
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To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Running
First Time
Minutes
Time First Time Go
Below
Mile
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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 / Physicist
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Talks
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Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Running
Ambition
Overcoming
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Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Intriguing
Quantum
Phenomena
Mechanics
Predicted
Statistical
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Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Discovery
Experiments
Nobel
Einstein
Owe
Led
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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 / Physicist
Bicycle
Finished
Thirty
Tours
Completed
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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.
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Available
Building Blocks
Blocks
Constructing
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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 / Physicist
Chemistry
Me Confidence Parents
Done Must Me
Basement
Experiment
Explosive
Quite A Bit
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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 / Physicist
Imagine
Inventing
Liquid
Sun
Aspects
Miss
Observe
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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 / Physicist
Ambition
Endurance
Traits
Overcome
Reflect
Work Hard
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When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Air
Energy
Molecules
Temperature
Characterize
Colder
Simply
Fast
Smaller
Subsequently
System
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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.
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Zero
Obvious
Standstill
Temperature
Velocity
Absolute
Feasible
Lower
Motion
Smaller
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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 / Physicist
Cells
Cooling
Experiments
Physics
Temperature
Thermal
Chambers
Laser
Opened
Optical
Route
Vacuum
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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 / Physicist
Alchemy
Amplify
Atoms
Gold
Medieval
Quantum
Subtle
Created
Electromagnetic
Realize
Therefore
Waves
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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 / Physicist
Ran
Unusual
Family Work Home
Graduate
Lab
Trained
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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 / Physicist
Analyzing
Earning
Helium
Hydrogen
Institute
Discovered
Emission
Laser
Stayed
Succeeded
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When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Running
Give Me
Obvious
Physics
Plans
Relaxed
Solutions
Thinking
Weekend
Run
Time Family Enough
Discoveries
Family Time Me
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As a scientist, I play in the top league - the Olympics, the World Championships - and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Marathon
Olympics
Championships
Personal Goals
Practiced
Reached
Runner
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Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don't run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Running
Body
Exercise
Intense
Muscles
Order
Relax
Scientist
Sitting
Tension
Week
Work Me Body
Run
Few
Hour
Involves
Physical
Sense
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