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20 quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American 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.
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My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By... →

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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

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There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese... →

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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of... →

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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

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I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

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Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

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