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 … Continue reading Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell who discovered new state of matter