Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell
Cornell in June 2015
Born	(1961-12-19) December 19, 1961 (age 62) Palo Alto, California, US
Alma mater	Stanford University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Bose–Einstein condensation
Awards	Fritz London Memorial Prize (1996) King Faisal International Prize in Science (1997) Lorentz Medal (1998) R. W. Wood Prize (1999) Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2000) Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Colorado Boulder National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) JILA
Thesis	Mass spectroscopy using single ion cyclotron resonance (1990)
Doctoral advisor	David E. Pritchard

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.