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

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 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”.  

Eric A. Cornell
JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA.		 Carl E. Wieman
JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.		 Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
 
 

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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