Randall G. Hulet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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physicist
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1956
Place of Birth: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Profession: physicist
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Randall G. Hulet
- Randall Gardner Hulet (born April 27, 1956 in Walnut Creek, California) is an American physicist. Hulet studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978.
- He received his doctorate in 1984 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Daniel Kleppner, and then joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder with David Wineland.
- In 1987 he became an assistant professor of physics at Rice University, and was promoted to associate professor in 1992, then full professor in 1996.
- He was appointed Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 2000. He is a pioneer of experiments with ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC).
- He is known for the first realization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atomic gas with attractive interaction, where the formation of the BEC competes with the usual condensation due to the attractive interaction.
- With enough atoms, an attractively interacting BEC becomes unstable, and Hulet's group was the first to observe such a system collapse.
- Another major achievement working with bosons was his realization of matter wave solitons in a BEC. Hulet has also performed pioneering experiments with degenerate Fermi gases.
- He achieved the first observation of a polarized degenerate Fermi gas, realized a degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture, and studied spin-imbalanced Fermi gases, including a possible realization of the FFLO state in a 1D system.
- His group has investigated fermions in optical lattices as a model of systems of solid-state physics, and observed short-range antiferromagnetism in a Hubbard system, similar to physics also observed in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.Hulet has received a number of awards for his work, including the Herbert Walther Prize in 2017, the Willis E.
- Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics in 2011, the I.
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- Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society in 1995, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1989.
- He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
- Hulet is an honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht.
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