Short Bio

DAVID E. PRITCHARD attended Caltech (B.S. 1962) and Harvard (PhD 1968), and has been with Massachusetts Institute of Technology since, where he is now Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics.  His research accomplishments span modern atomic physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.  He has won the Broida Prize and the Schawlow prize from APS, the Max Born Award from OSA, and the IUPAP Senior Scientist Medal in Fundamental Metrology.  Arguably, he is a better mentor than a researcher, since he has mentored four winners of national thesis awards and three Nobel prizewinners (one of whom gave Dave his gold medal).