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Noble pursuits, Nobel Prizes
William D. Phillips, NIST physicist, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He shared the prize with Steven Chu of Stanford University and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure.
Eric A. Cornell, NIST senior scientist, Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado and Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. Cornell had observed a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995, a form predicted by Albert Einstein that occurs at just a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
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