NIST Unscripted - Bill Phillips

As part of the NIST Unscripted video series, Bill Phillips, NIST Fellow and physicist, discusses: (1) what lead him to study the cooling and trapping of atoms with lasers—the work that earned him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics; (2) what is atomic timekeeping and why it is important for NIST to develop and operate the world's most accurate atomic clocks; and (3) what is laser cooling and how it may one day lead to a practical quantum computer. CREDITS http://go.usa.gov/jZSd