Eric A. Cornell

Eric A. Cornell, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1961-12-19 in Palo Alto, CA, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physicist

Biography

Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Awarded on: 2001-10-09

"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

Affiliations:

  • University of Colorado, JILA – Boulder, CO, USA
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