2001

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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…

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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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English The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physic This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics deals with an extreme state of matter, the Bose-Einstein Condensate. The three scientists who are awarded the Prize jointly are Eric A. Cornell, JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001       Left: Ketterle’s first atom laser. Centre and right: later results from other laboratories.     The atomic laser When the laser was invented some forty years ago, no-one envisaged its many areas of application today. A laser emits coherent light; could coherent matter be utilised…

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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…

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  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.  …

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