Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E.

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Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E.

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Wieman, synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.

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Wieman, synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.

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SUCCESS & ENDURING LEGACY

Honours, Standing & Enduring Legacy

Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”.

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