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Eric Allin Cornell

1961 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2024). Eric Allin Cornell is the 575th most popular physicist (down from 534th in 2024), the 5,781st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,502nd in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Eric Allin Cornell ranks 575 out of 851. Before him are Willem Hendrik Keesom, John Lennard-Jones, Jakob II Bernoulli, Marietta Blau, Claude Pouillet, and Marcel Brillouin. After him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, Yakov Frenkel, and Yulii Khariton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Eric Allin Cornell ranks 186. Before him are Pierluigi Martini, Bob Peterson, Raymond Cruz, Katherine Kelly Lang, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and Doris Dragović. After him are Vincent Gallo, Graham McTavish, Kati Outinen, Arundhati Roy, Jörg Meuthen, and Chendo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Allin Cornell ranks 5,781 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Yerkes (1837), Robert Lockwood Jr. (1915), Robert Towne (1934), Jane Toppan (1854), George Ritzer (1940), and Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893). After him are George Marshall (1891), Frances Marion (1888), Vincent Gallo (1961), George Sidney (1916), Tiffany Trump (1993), and Jennifer Esposito (1973).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Eric Allin Cornell ranks 119. Before him are Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Grote Reber (1911), Gene Amdahl (1922), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Philip Morrison (1915), and Samuel T. Cohen (1921). After him are Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Norman Holter (1914), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Frank J. Tipler (1947), and Evelyn Fox Keller (1936).

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