Markus Greiner is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate ca ...

and Professor of

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Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. Greiner studied under the

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at the Ludwig-Maximilians University and at the

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, where he received his diploma and PhD in

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for experimental work on Bose-Einstein condensates and bosons in

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s. He was involved in the first realization of the

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from a

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in a Bose-Hubbard system. He then moved to the United States and conducted postdoctoral research at

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under

Deborah Jin Deborah Shiu-lan Jin (; November 15, 1968 – September 15, 2016) was an American physicist and fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Professor Adjunct, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; and ...

, working on the creation of a fermionic condensate of

ultracold atom Ultracold atoms are atoms that are maintained at temperatures close to 0 kelvin (absolute zero), typically below several tens of microkelvin (µK). At these temperatures the atom's quantum-mechanical properties become important. To reach such low ...

s. Since 2005 Greiner has been a professor at Harvard University, continuing research on BECs and ultracold Fermi gases. He was recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO award of the American Physical Society in 2004 and the William L. McMillan award in 2005 for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics. In 2011, he was named a

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

. He was awarded the I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics by the APS in 2013. In 2017 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

References

External links

Greiner Group website at Harvard University
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