Daniel Kleppner (born 1932) is an American physicist who is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.
[5] In the 1950s, Kleppner became a physics doctoral student at Harvard University, where he worked under Norman Ramsey.
In 1995, a group of researchers, including Kleppner's former students, made a BEC using rubidium atoms.
[7] Kleppner has been the recipient of many awards including Within MIT he won the institute's prestigious James R. Killian, Jr.
Kleppner and his thesis adviser (and Nobel laureate) Norman Ramsey wrote the text Quick Calculus, joined for the 3rd edition by MIT professor Peter Dourmashkin: