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Randall G. Hulet

Randall G. Hulet earned a BS degree at Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a National Research Council Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he worked on laser cooling of trapped atomic ions. He joined the faculty of Rice University in 1987 and he currently holds the Fayez Sarofim Chair in Natural Sciences. He has received the I.I. Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society (APS), the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigators Award, a NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, the Davisson-Germer Prize of the APS, and the Herbert Walther Award from the European Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hulet is known for his contributions to atomic physics. He helped to develop methods for laser cooling and trapping of atoms. His group first realized Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas with attractive interactions, created a degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture, and observed antiferromagnetic order in the Fermi-Hubbard model using ultracold atoms. His current focus is the quantum simulation fermions confined to one-dimension.

Positions Held
General Member, 2013 – 2023