William Phillips won the 1997 prize in physics while at NIST. I had the honor of having lunch with him when he came back to his undergraduate alma mater for a v

William Phillips won the 1997 prize in physics while at NIST. I had the honor of having lunch with him when he came back to his undergraduate alma mater for a visit a few years later. It was probably the most interesting lunch discussions I've ever been a part of. All four of the NIST Nobel luareates won for the work they've done in laser cooling for the atomic clocks.