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Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19 , 1961 ) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman , was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.
Biography Cornell was born in Palo Alto , California and is a distinguished alumnus of both Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (1976-1979) and San Francisco 's Lowell High School (1979-1980). He received his B.S. in Physics with honour and distinction from Stanford University in 1985 and Ph.D. in Physics at MIT in 1990. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado and a physicist at the United States Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology . His lab is located at JILA . He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1998 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
In October 2004, his left arm and shoulder were amputated in an attempt to stop the spread of necrotizing fasciitis , sometimes referred to as "flesh-eating disease." He was discharged from the hospital in mid-December, having recovered from the infection, and returned to work part-time in April 2005.[1] [2]
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