“We were just trying to cool atoms down to the lowest possible temperatures.”

— Eric Allin Cornell

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About Eric Allin Cornell

Physicist • American

Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, synthesized the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their achievements, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize...

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