World’s Coldest Stuff: Nobel Prize Winner Explains Bose-Einstein Condensate

What happens when you make the world’s coldest material? Eric Cornell won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for making Einstein-Bose condensate, a super cold substance. The existence of the material had been theorized for 70 to 75 years prior to its discovery by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose. The condensate was discovered by using lasers and magnets to cool down a gas to temperatures so low that the atoms started acting like waves, and formed a jelly-like, goopy cold material.

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You can tell he is intelligent because he can explain a wildly difficult concept in the simplest way

[BoterKat]

He is so humble man, he basically said "I won the noble prize for putting together everyone else's work" and praised those people more than himself, hats off man

[John.Doe.A.DR]

Give this man another noble prize,
For his humbleness & his personality.
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[BB-olgc]

Was extremely lucky to have him as one of my physics professors. A lovely person with an incredible gift at explaining high level concepts in an easy to understand way.

[Kiko-yqcs]

I had him for E&M freshman year. Absolutely great guy, super humble and always willing to teach.

[siegfriedkleinmartins]

He is probably the best teacher I've heard off. Only a down to Earth genius can explain particle physics with such simplicity and brilliance.

[plotted_pant]

Bro dropped the coldest stuff and thought the Nobel Committee wouldnt notice 👀🥶🥶

[Gwalchgwyn]

No surprise that one of the most intuitive layman-friendly descriptions of this phenomenon comes from the man whose groundbreaking works finally allowed us to 'see' it.

[rishikesh]

Never realised or told that Our Bose has done so much in the field of physics. Felt very so proud today 🇮🇳

[vitoc]

Einstein and Bose: "I am limited by the technology of my time."

[ViktorSarge]

I love that he's been marinated for decades and decades in highly specialized conecpts and vocabulary but does away with 95% of it in favor of "I won a Nobel prize for making things really cold" so that anyone can grasp what he actually did.

[HalalCatt]

Bro won the coolest Nobel prize
LITERALLY

[mpccengineer]

I asked Eric to play frisbee at a DAMOP conference. I had asked several nobel laureates, and he was the only one to say yes. He was great at frisbee, and he was a great guy to hang out with. I am glad he survived his encounter with flesh-eating bacteria. A great scientist!

[dazenguile]

i love that he acknowledges the original scientists both in the telling AND naming it after them. winning a nobel prize, he could’ve easily just named it after himself and his team.

[rickwar]

Because when I want to cool things down, I go straight to lasers.

[Diana-Derivative]

I went to school with his kid, saw him sometimes at school plays and stuff. Super cool guy, very chill.

[BastardZombieKiller]

The visual with this, as he explains it in very basic terms, is amazing.
Ive heard of the condensate before but didn't know what it was.
Thank you.

[PraashaSah]

Satyendra nath Bose! The father of God Particle(BOSon). An underrated genius!

[rahari]

Give the credits to the theorists instead of himself and even named the invention after those people is so wholesome.

[donmac]

Most people have no idea how impressive this was. The engineering genius this took is off the scale