Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner .
Life
Eric Cornell was born on December 19, 1961, the eldest of three children to MIT C. Allin Cornell , a professor of construction and a high school English teacher. He studied physics at Stanford University and, after graduating from MIT in 1985, went to Cambridge , the city where he had lived since he was two. He worked on the research group of David E. Pritchard on the mass determination of 3 He and 3 H and received his doctorate in 1990. Remarkably, after Cornell's departure from MIT, Wolfgang Ketterle joined the research group Pritchards, who would later receive the Nobel Prize with Cornell.
Cornell applied for a postdoctoral position with David Wineland at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) but was not accepted. Instead, Sarah Gilbert, who overheard his interview, referred him to her husband, Carl E. Wieman , who worked at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) in Boulder . After his two postdoctoral years, he remained at JILA as an assistant professor and was appointed professor in 1995, and has also been a fellow at NIST since 1994.
Eric Cornell married Celeste Landry in January 1995, whom he had met ten years earlier at Stanford, but had lost sight of again. He has two daughters, Eliza (* 1996) and Sophia (* 1998).
In 2004, his left arm and part of his left shoulder had to be amputated because of necrotizing fasciitis .
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In 2001, together with Carl E. Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the generation of the Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases from alkali atoms and for early fundamental studies on the properties of the condensates”. After successfully generating the Bose-Einstein condensates, he has been researching the physical properties of these systems ever since.
Awards
- 1995 Samuel Wesley Stratton Award (National Institute of Science and Technology)
- 1995–96 Newcomb Cleveland Prize ( American Association for the Advancement of Science )
- 1996 Gold Medal from the Department of Commerce
- 1996 Fritz London Prize for Low Temperature Physics
- 1996 Carl Zeiss Research Prize , Ernst Abbe Foundation
- 1997 Alan T. Waterman Award ( National Science Foundation )
- 1997 International King Faisal Prize for Science
- 1997 Rabi Prize for Atomic, Molecular Physics and Optics ( American Physical Society )
- 1997 elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1998 Lorentz Medal ( Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences )
- 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics
- 1999 R. W. Wood Prize ( Optical Society of America )
- 2000 elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- 2000 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 2005 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
literature
- Eric A. Cornell , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/2002 of December 24, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2001 award ceremony for Eric A. Cornell
- Homepage
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cornell, Eric Allin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and Nobel Prize winner |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Palo Alto , California |