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Professor of Physics Wolfgang Ketterle was mobbed by audience members of all ages after his speech at the Nobel laureate luncheon at the start of Family Weekend on Friday, Oct. 18. People sought his autograph or asked questions about his talk on "The Coldest Matter in the Universe."

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on October 23, 2002.

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