Daniel Kleppner

Education

1959–1960: Harvard University, Research Fellow in Physics
1960–1966: Harvard University, Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics
1966–1973: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, Research Laboratory of Electronics
1974–1985: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
1985–2007: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics
2007–present: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics Emeritus

1987–2007: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics
2000–2007: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Director, Center for Ultracold Atoms

1973–1976: Member, Committee on Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, National Research Council
1980–1985: Member, Committee on Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, National Research Council
1983–1984: Chair, Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, American Physical Society
1987–1990: Member, Board of Physics and Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences
1988–1990: Secretary, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

1986: American Physical Society, Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
1986: National Academy of Sciences, Member
1991: American Physical Society, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
2005: Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
2006: National Medal of Science

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