Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornellis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth19 December 1961
CountryUnited States of America
childhood majority memory mother passed quite taught
My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading.
bothered enjoy model paint stick
I didn't really enjoy the assembling the model kits very much, and usually I couldn't be bothered to paint the thing, or even to stick on the decals.
classes high inspiring school several
Some of my classes in high school were pretty interesting and I benefited from having several very intelligent and inspiring teachers.
chinese generally kicking kong left months six spent
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
large mass might rest ten value
There were hints, in those days, that the neutrino might have a rest mass as large as ten eV, a value of cosmological significance.
brother california father including sabbatical younger
The family, including my younger brother and sister, accompanied my father on sabbatical years to Berkeley, California and Lisbon, Portugal.
career enjoyed persuaded pursue scientific
I really enjoyed this experience, and it was these jobs, more than anything else, that persuaded me to pursue a career in scientific research.
lasers use physics
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
years wife way
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
school writing chess
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
teenage years culture
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
sister mother brother
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
different sparks energy
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
school math years
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.