Kurt Gibble

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Kurt Gibble is Professor of Physics at The Pennsylvania State University. After obtaining a Ph.D. from JILA at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he was a postdoc at Stanford University, and faculty at Yale University before moving to Penn State in 2001. His research addresses a range of topics on microwave, optical, and space-based atomic clocks, and the scattering of ultracold atoms. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.


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Keeping atoms synchronized for better timekeeping

In a new regime for atomic clocks, strong interactions between atoms dramatically increase the clock’s coherence time. Read More »