Experiments Quote by Eric Allin Cornell

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

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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

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

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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in…

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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would…

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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…

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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

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

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I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not…

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