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Interview

Interview transcript Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle welcome to this Nobel interview. You have been in Stockholm now for a few days and yesterday you got the Nobel Prize and this was for your discovery of Bose-Einstein condensate – the coldest piece of material in the whole universe. Do you…

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Interview

Interview transcript Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle welcome to this Nobel interview. You have been in Stockholm now for a few days and yesterday you got the Nobel Prize and this was for your discovery of Bose-Einstein condensate – the coldest piece of material in the whole…

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Interview

Interview, November 2020 Carl Wieman Photo: Andrew Brodhead Carl Wieman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on super cooled atoms but over the last three decades he has also been applying a scientific approach to something different: improving education. In this interview he talks about better teaching methods, what COVID-19 has…

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Banquet speech

There are several equations left over from my talk on light last Thursday – and I thought this splendid dinner might be an ideal occasion to present them. But I’d like to say a few words first. These dark days in Stockholm emphasize the importance of light in our lives. It is…

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