Rainer Blatt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rainer Blatt

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1952

Place of Birth: Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Rainer Blatt (born 8 September 1952) is a German-Austrian experimental physicist.
His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information.
He and his team performed one of the first experiments to teleport atoms, the other was done at NIST in Boulder Colorado.
The reports of both groups appeared back-to-back in Nature.