Eric Allin Cornell

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Eric Allin Cornell (June 2015)

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.

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