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
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.
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.
realizing reason be-good
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
computer infatuation burnt-out
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
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.