{{short description|German physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Markus Greiner | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|08|20}} | birth_place = Hannover, Germany | death_date = | death_place = | field = Physics<br>Atomic Physics<br>Ultracold Atoms | work_institution = Harvard University | alma_mater = LMU Munich <br>Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | doctoral_advisor = Theodor Hänsch | academic_advisors = Deborah S. Jin (postdoc) | known_for = optical lattices, Mott insulator | prizes = Otto-Klung-Weberbank-Preis (2005) <br>William L. McMillan Award (2005) <br> MacArthur Fellow (2011)<br>I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular or Optical Physics (2013) | religion = | footnotes = }}
'''Markus Greiner''' is a German physicist and Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
Greiner studied under the Nobel Laureate Theodor Hänsch at LMU Munich and at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, where he received his diploma and PhD in physics for experimental work on Bose-Einstein condensates and bosons in optical lattices. He was involved in the first realization of the quantum phase transition from a superfluid to Mott insulator in a Bose-Hubbard system.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms|journal = Nature|pages = 39–44|volume = 415|issue = 6867|doi = 10.1038/415039a|first1 = Markus|last1 = Greiner|first2 = Olaf|last2 = Mandel|first3 = Tilman|last3 = Esslinger|first4 = Theodor W.|last4 = Hänsch|first5 = Immanuel|last5 = Bloch|pmid=11780110|date=January 2002|bibcode = 2002Natur.415...39G|s2cid = 4411344|arxiv = 2506.21303}}</ref>
He then moved to the United States and conducted postdoctoral research at JILA under Deborah Jin, working on the creation of a fermionic condensate of ultracold atoms. Since 2005 Greiner has been a professor at Harvard University, continuing research on BECs and ultracold Fermi gases.
He was recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO award of the American Physical Society in 2004<ref>{{Cite web|title = Prize Recipient|url = http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Greiner&first_nm=Markus&year=2004|website = www.aps.org|accessdate = November 16, 2015}}</ref> and the William L. McMillan award in 2005 for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Winners of the McMillan Award {{!}} Department of Physics at the U of I|url = http://physics.illinois.edu/about/mcmillan/winners.asp|website = physics.illinois.edu|accessdate = November 16, 2015}}</ref> In 2011, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.<ref name="2011macarthur">{{cite web|title=MacArthur Fellows Program: Meet the 2011 Fellows|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.7728991/k.12E8/Meet_the_2011_Fellows.htm|work=September 20, 2011|publisher=John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|accessdate=September 20, 2011}}</ref> He was awarded the I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics by the APS in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Prize Recipient|url = http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Greiner&first_nm=Markus&year=2013|website = www.aps.org|accessdate = November 16, 2015}}</ref> In 2017 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.<ref>{{cite web |title=Greiner, Yelin are 2017 APS Fellows |url=https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/793 |publisher=Harvard University |accessdate=July 22, 2019}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://greiner.physics.harvard.edu/ Greiner Group website at Harvard University] * [http://greiner.physics.harvard.edu/PersonalInfo.html Personal Homepage of Markus Greiner]
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