Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms; Bose-Einstein
condensation of cold atomic gases; Collisions and
photoassociation of ultracold atoms; Quantum information
with atomic qubits; Cold-atom atomic clocks

1978~ National Institute for Standards and
Technology (NIST) 연구원
1990~1996 NIST 책임연구원 및 Fellow
1992~2001 Univ. of Maryland 겸임교수
1997~ National Academy of Sciences (USA) 회원
2001~ Distinguished University Professor, University of
Maryland
2002~2003 George Eastman Visiting Prof., Balliol
College and Clarendon Laboratory, Dept. of Physics,
University of Oxford

1987 Samuel Wesley Stratton Award of the National Bureau
of Standards
1988 Arthur S. Flemming Award of the Washington Downtown
Jaycees
1993 Gold Medal of the Dept. of Commerce
1996 Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (APS)