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That’s very unusual in a postdoc.”. – Carl Wieman, professor of physics and education at Stanford University, shared 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics with Cornell. Created September 28, 2016, Updated August 31, 2021. Eric Allin Cornell was born in Palo Alto, California, on December 19, 1961.

Eric Cornell Biographical . I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. My parents were completing graduate degrees at Stanford. Two years later we moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city I consider to be my hometown. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Eric A. Cornell. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001. Born: 19 December 1961, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, CO, USA. Prize motivation: “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early ...

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist. Together with Carl E. Wieman he synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. In 2001 Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.

Eric Allin Cornell Dates December 19, 1961 – present Authorized Form of Name Cornell, Eric Allin, 1961- Additional Forms of Names Cornell, Eric A., 1961- Biography Abstract 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born 1961 in Palo Alto, California (US citizen). PhD 1990 at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Prof. Dr. Eric Cornell Nationality United States Institution JILA University of Colorado Award 2001 Discipline Physics Co-recipients Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Wieman Read CV Further Information on the Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize Highlights Life Paths Follow the Laureate's life path on an interactive world map. Read More Title Category Year

Prof. Dr. Eric Allin Cornell. > CV. Eric Allin Cornell shared the 2001 physics prize with his colleague Carl Wieman and German Wolfgang Ketterle for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose made statistical calculations regarding photons, particles of light.