2026 Wolfgang Ketterle: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	116	934	881	496	460	346	76177

Wolfgang Ketterle publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Ketterle sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 346 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Wolfgang Ketterle D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Ketterle sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2006 - OSA Fellows For pioneering work in the production and application of coherent matter waves.
2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics
2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2001 - Nobel Prize for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
2000 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
1999 - Fritz London Memorial Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 - I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society For achieving Bose-Einstein condensation of an atomic gas, for creating techniques for studying the Bose condensate, and for measuring the physical properties of the weakly interacting atomic Bose gas.
1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering research in achieving BoseEinstein condensation in an atomic vapor, and for seminal studies on the properties of the condensate

Overview

Wolfgang Ketterle is affiliated with MIT in the United States and is primarily engaged in research within the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work focuses extensively on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, with significant contributions also in Artificial Intelligence, Condensed Matter Physics, Spectroscopy, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's research topics predominantly cover Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Quantum and superfluid helium dynamics, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Advanced Frequency and Time Standards, Quantum Information and Cryptography, and Quantum many-body systems.

The scientist has published numerous studies in high-profile venues. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Physical Review A, and Science.

Significant recent publications include:

Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules (2021), Radboud Repository (Radboud University)
Dipolar spin-exchange and entanglement between molecules in an optical tweezer array (2023), Science
Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules (2020), Physical Review Letters
Rotational Coherence Times of Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers (2021), Physical Review Letters
Control of reactive collisions by quantum interference (2022), Radboud Repository (Radboud University)

Wolfgang Ketterle has collaborated frequently with a set of co-authors including Yu-Kun Lu, Alan O. Jamison, Loïc Anderegg, Scarlett S. Yu, and Kang-Kuen Ni.

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards and honors across their career. These include:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
OSA Fellow for pioneering work in the production and application of coherent matter waves, 2006
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2005
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
Nobel Prize, 2001, for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms and early fundamental studies of condensate properties
Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute, 2000
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
Fritz London Memorial Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, 1999
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 1997, citation for pioneering Bose-Einstein condensation research
I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics from the American Physical Society, 1997

Best Publications

Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Gas of Sodium Atoms

K.B. Davis;M.-O. Mewes;M.R. Andrews;N.J. van Druten

9211
Citations
Bose-Einstein condensation

Christopher Townsend;Wolfgang Ketterle;Sandro Stringari

5147
Citations
Observation of Feshbach resonances in a Bose–Einstein condensate

S. Inouye;M. R. Andrews;M. R. Andrews;J. Stenger;H.-J. Miesner

2979
Citations
Observation of Interference Between Two Bose Condensates

M. R. Andrews;C. G. Townsend;H.-J. Miesner;D. S. Durfee

2555
Citations
Observation of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. R. Abo-Shaeer;C. Raman;J. M. Vogels;W. Ketterle

2059
Citations
Condensation of pairs of fermionic atoms near a Feshbach resonance.

M. W. Zwierlein;C. A. Stan;C. H. Schunck;S. M. F. Raupach

1688
Citations
OPTICAL CONFINEMENT OF A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

D. M. Stamper-Kurn;M. R. Andrews;A. P. Chikkatur;S. Inouye

1524
Citations
Vortices and superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

M. W. Zwierlein;J. R. Abo-Shaeer;J. R. Abo-Shaeer;A. Schirotzek;C. H. Schunck

1514
Citations
Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules.

M. W. Zwierlein;C. A. Stan;C. H. Schunck;S. M. F. Raupach

1503
Citations
Spin domains in ground-state Bose-Einstein condensates

J. Stenger;S. Inouye;D. M. Stamper-Kurn;H.-J. Miesner

1485
Citations
Realization of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Lower Dimensions

A. Görlitz;J. M. Vogels;A. E. Leanhardt;C. Raman

1371
Citations
Realizing the Harper Hamiltonian with Laser-Assisted Tunneling in Optical Lattices

Hirokazu Miyake;Georgios A. Siviloglou;Colin J. Kennedy;William Cody Burton

1326
Citations
Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms

M.-O. Mewes;M. R. Andrews;D. M. Kurn;D. S. Durfee

1291
Citations
Evaporative Cooling of Trapped Atoms

Wolfgang Ketterle;N.J. Van Druten

1192
Citations
Fermionic Superfluidity with Imbalanced Spin Populations

Martin W. Zwierlein;André Schirotzek;Christian H. Schunck;Wolfgang Ketterle

1157
Citations
BRAGG SPECTROSCOPY OF A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

J. Stenger;S. Inouye;A. P. Chikkatur;D. M. Stamper-Kurn

1072
Citations
Nobel lecture: When atoms behave as waves: Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser*

Wolfgang Ketterle

975
Citations
High densities of cold atoms in a dark spontaneous-force optical trap.

Wolfgang Ketterle;Kendall B. Davis;Michael A. Joffe;Alex Martin

955
Citations
Spin domains in ground state spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

J. Stenger;S. Inouye;D. M. Stamper-Kurn;H. J. Miesner

910
Citations
Collective Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Magnetic Trap.

M.O. Mewes;M.R. Andrews;N.J. van Druten;D.M. Kurn

905
Citations