The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  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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Contents:
| Introduction – Atoms in unison | Particles or Waves? Both! | Cold… | …colder… | …coldest! | Large condensates and interference patterns | The atomic laser | Further reading | Credits |

Based on materials from the 2001 Nobel Poster for Physics
 

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