Nobel Physics

STOCKHOLM, OCT. 9. Mr. Eric Cornell and Mr. Carl Wieman of the U.S. alongwith Mr. Wolfgang Ketterle of Germany today won the Nobel physics prize for 2001 for discoveries of principles governing the behaviour of matter. The trio were awarded the prize ``for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates,'' the jury said.

- AFP

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