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
computer infatuation burnt-out
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
reading school littles
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
gratitude grateful perspective
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?
years surprise passing
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
teacher trouble found
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
modern old-fashioned
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
california born
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
realizing reason be-good
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
mistake chinese literature
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
smart school effort
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
mother father school
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
character interesting chinese
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
fun air watches
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.