13/7/2019
Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).
The existence of the condensate had been predicted by Albert Eistein, among others, and Cornell had been searching for it for over 10 years before his breakthough – which was discovering that chilling and slowing atoms caused them to merge into a single entity. Eric Cornell has been in New Zealand to attend the 24th International Conference On Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS), hosted by the Dodd-Walls Centre, New Zealand’s national research group for photonic and quantum technologies, which combines top scientists from across the country and is based at the University of Otago.
Click here to listen to Eric’s Interview with Kim Hill
