Wolfgang Ketterle, physics Nobel Laureate and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the Fifth Annual Ford Motor Company Distinguished Lecture in Physics at 4:15 p.m. April 6 in East Hall, Room 1324.

Ketterle will discuss “When Freezing Cold is Not Cold Enough—New Forms of Matter at Close to Absolute Zero Temperature.”

He was one of three persons to receive the Nobel Prize in 2001 for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.

A reception will precede the lecture at 3:45 p.m. in the East Hall atrium.

The lecture is presented by the Physics Department. For more information, call (734) 764-4437.