Daniel Kleppner
Daniel Kleppner · Science & Medicine
Physicist; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
1932, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
United States (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Daniel Kleppner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
Kleppner, from a Jewish family, was an atomic physicist at Harvard and MIT. He co-invented the hydrogen maser, a device central to precise atomic clocks and to the accuracy of GPS, and pioneered the study of Rydberg atoms and cavity quantum electrodynamics. His work shaped modern precision measurement and the physics of atoms interacting with light.
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Physicist; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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