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Article: Nobel Prize winner will explain how Einstein's theories still apply today.(City/Region)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
Bill Phillips works in a world where speeding atoms are slowed to a crawl using "optical molasses," where temperatures drop to the tiniest fraction of a degree above absolute zero and where clocks aren't off by a second over 80 million years.
A Nobel Prize winner in physics, Phillips will be in Eugene tonight to give a public talk on his research and how the theories laid out by Albert Einstein more than a hundred years ago still guide research today.
Phillips is a fellow at the Joint Quantum Institute at the National Institute for Standards and Technology and at the University of Maryland. He shared the ...