Nobel Prize

German 9 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Physik gemeinsam zu verleihen an Eric A. Cornell JILA und National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, und Carl E. Wieman JILA und University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, „für…

Eric A. Cornell http://jilawww.colorado.edu/bec/ Wolfgang Ketterle http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/ Carl E. Wieman http://jilawww.colorado.edu/bec/ University of Colorado (animations, questions and answers etc.) http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/   Further reading in English Advanced information on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (pdf) The Bose-Einstein Condensate by E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman, Scientific American, March…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Sune Svanberg of the , December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Sune Svanberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Three quarters of a century ago,…

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Swedish 9 oktober 2001 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2001 gemensamt till Eric A. CornellJILA och National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang KetterleMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, och Carl E. WiemanJILA och University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, “för uppnående av Bose-Einsteinkondensation i förtunnade…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001         Credits   Editors: Prof. Sune Svanberg and Prof. Stig Stenholm, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Prof. Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Eva Krutmeijer, Head of Information and Katarina Werner, Information assistant, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.  …

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001       The density of the atomic cloud is shown, with temperature decreasing from left to right. The high peak, the Bose-Einstein condensate, emerges above the other atoms. The picture is from the JILA laboratory.       …coldest! Eric A. Cornell joined Wieman as a co-worker…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001         To the left, Ketterle’s first interference pattern. The interference pattern between two expanding condensates resembles that formed by throwing two stones into still water.     Large condensates and interference patterns Wolfgang Ketterle came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990. He…