Jette.+Years+1950-current

= Years 1950-Current =

= = = = =Albert Einstein=

= = = = = = = = = = =Eric Allin Cornell, Carl E. Wieman, and = = = =Wolfgang Katterle =

=Noble Prize 2001 Winners =



= Eric Allin Cornell c.1961 =

Bio/Discoveries:
 * **Eric Allin Cornell** (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 jointly to, 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"//..
 * 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 honors 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.

Carl E. Wieman c. 1951

Bio/Discoveries: >
 * **Carl Edwin Wieman** (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia.
 * He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, and Wolfgang Ketterle //"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"//..
 * Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon and graduated from Corvallis High School. Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977; he was also awarded a Doctor of Science, //honoris causa// from the University of Chicago in 1997.
 * In 2004, he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities.
 * In the past several years, Wieman has been particularly involved with efforts at improving science education and has conducted educational research on science instruction. Wieman currently serves as Chair of the Board on Science Education of the National Academy of Sciences.
 * He has used and promotes Eric Mazur's "peer instruction", a pedagogical system, where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless "clicker" devices. If a large proportion of the class chooses a wrong answer, students discuss among themselves and reply again.
 * In 2007, Wieman was awarded the Oersted Medal, which recognizes notable contributions to the teaching of physics, by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

Wolfgang Katterle c. 1957

Bio/Discoveries:
 * **Wolfgang Ketterle** (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 * His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose-Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995.
 * He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics 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"//..
 * Ketterle was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg , and attended school in Eppelheim and Heidelberg.
 * In 1976 he entered the University of Heidelberg, before transferring to the Technical University of Munich two years later, where he gained his master's diploma in 1982. In 1986 he earned a Ph.D in experimental molecular spectroscopy under the supervision of Herbert Walther and Hartmut Figger at the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in <span class="wiki_link_ext">Garching , before conducting postdoctoral research at Garching and the University of Heidelberg.
 * In 1990 he joined the group of <span class="wiki_link_ext">David E. Pritchard at the MIT <span class="wiki_link_ext">Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). He was appointed to the MIT physics faculty in 1993. Since 1998 he has been <span class="wiki_link_ext">John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. In 2006, he was appointed Associate Director of RLE, and began serving as director of MIT's Center for Ultracold Atoms.
 * After achieving <span class="wiki_link_ext">Bose-Einstein Condensation in dilute gases in 1995, his group was in 1997 able to demonstrate <span class="wiki_link_ext">interference between two colliding condensates, as well as the first realization of an "atom laser", the <span class="wiki_link_ext">atomic analogue of an optical <span class="wiki_link_ext">laser.
 * In addition to ongoing investigations of Bose-Einstein condensates in ultracold atoms, his more recent achievements have included the creation of a <span class="wiki_link_ext">molecular Bose condensate in 2003, as well as a 2005 experiment providing evidence for "high temperature" <span class="wiki_link_ext">superfluidity in a <span class="wiki_link_ext">fermionic condensate.
 * Wolfgang Ketterle is also a runner featured in the December issue of Runner's World's "I'm a Runner". Ketterle spoke of taking his running shoes to Stockholm when he received the Nobel Prize and happily running in the early dusk.

Work Cited For This Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ketterle http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/ketterle_wolfgang.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_E._Wieman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allin_Cornell
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