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Eric Allin Cornell [1961-0] American

Rank: 103
Physicist

Eric Allin Cornell 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.

Computers, Space, Travel

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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.	Computers	101
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.		102
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.		103
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.	Space	104
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.		105
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.		106
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.		107
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.		108
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.		109
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.		110
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.	Travel	111
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.		112
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.		113
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.		114
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.		115
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.		116
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.		117
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.		118
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.		119
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.		120

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