The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Eric A. Cornell

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Wolfgang Ketterle

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Carl E. Wieman

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 was awarded jointly to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."

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