William D. Phillips
fisikawan Amerika Serikat
William Daniel Phillips (lahir 5 November 1948 di Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) adalah seorang fisikawan Amerika Serikat berdarah Wales-Italia yang menerima Penghargaan Nobel Fisika tahun 1997 (bersama dengan Claude Cohen-Tannoudji dan Steven Chu).
Pendidikan
- Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, diploma (Valedictorian) 1966.
- Juniata College, Huntington, Pennsylvania, B.S., Fisika, summa cum laude, 1970.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D., Fisika, 1976. Menulis tesis di bawah Prof. Daniel Kleppner, berjudul: The Magnetic Moment of the Proton in H2O dan Inelastic Collisions in Excited Na.
Hadiah dan penghormatan
- Pennsylvania State Scholarship, 1966-1970
- C.C. Ellis Memorial Scholarship, 1969-1970
- Election to Juniata College Honor Society, 1969
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1970
- National Science Foundation Fellow, 1970-1973
- Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, 1976-1978
- Outstanding Young Scientist Award dari Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1982.
- Scientific Achievement Award dari Washington Academy of Sciences, 1982
- Silver Medal dari Department of Commerce, 1983
- Samuel Wesley Stratton Award of the National Bureau of Standards, 1987
- Arthur S. Flemming Award dari Washington Downtown Jaycees, 1988
- Gold Medal of the Department of Commerce, 1993.
- Dipilih ke American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1995
- Dipilih sebagai Staf NIST, 1995
- Michelson Medal dari Franklin Insitute, 1996
- Distinguished Traveling Lecturer (APS-DLS), 1996-98
- Dipilih ke National Academy of Sciences, 1997
- Hadiah Nobel Fisika, 1997
- Penghargaan Arthur L. Schawlow dalam Ilmu Laser (APS), 1998
Perkumpulan ilmiah
- Staf, American Physical Society
- Staf, Optical Society of America
- Staf, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- Sigma Xi Research Society
- Society of Physics Students