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Eric Allin Cornell

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Eric Allin Cornell

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Also known as Eric A. Cornell, Eric Cornell, E. A. Cornell, E.A. Cornell, Eric A Cornell, E A Cornell

American physicist, professor (born 1961)

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Eric Allin Cornell was born in 1961. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Cornell received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 7.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2001

    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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Wikidata facts

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human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Palo Alto
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
physics
Image
Physics Nobel Laureate Eric Allin Cornell, in June of 2015.jpg
Work location
Boulder
Residence
Boulder
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Eric Allin Cornell
date of birth
1961-12-19
Erdős number
7
name in native language
Eric Allin Cornell
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Encyclopedic overview

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) 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.

Biography

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