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Bill Phillips with John Prodan
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Bill Phillips (standing) circa 1983 with his first postdoc John Prodan (seated), who worked with Phillips and others on the earliest laser cooling and trapping experiments with neutral atoms on the NIST-Gaithersburg campus.
Credit: NIST

Posted by Gina Smith
Gina Smith is an award-winning journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of Apple founder Steve Wozniak's biography, iWOZ: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Doing It (2006/2014, WW Norton) and The Genomics Age (2005/2015, Amacom), a Barron's book of the year. She holds a brand new PhD in cognitive psychology.