His experiments demonstrated that a beam of neutral atoms could be slowed down and cooled with radiation pressure from a laser and that atoms cooled by lasers could reach much lower temperatures than had been predicted theoretically. He developed the Zeeman slower, which is a scientific apparatus that is commonly used in quantum optics to cool a beam of atoms from room temperature or above to a few kelvins. His collaborative research with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu led to the first observation of the Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995, an exotic new form of matter in which atoms all fall to their lowest levels and merge into a single quantum state. In 1997, Dr. Phillips received the Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen Tannoudji and Steven Chu for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.He is currently serving as a Physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. He is also a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He is co-director of the NSF Physics Frontier Center at the Joint Quantum Institute. He is a Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the International Society for Science and Religion. What is more amazing about Phillips is that, along with his profound scientific commitment, he is also a man of deep religious belief.