Senior Scientist, NIST
Address
JILA
University of Colorado
Campus Box 440
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440
Telephone: 303-492-6281
FAX: 303-492-5235
Email: cornell@jila.colorado.edu
Degrees
B.S., Physics, with honor and with distinction, Stanford University, 1985
Ph.D., Physics, MIT, 1990
Appointments
Fellow, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994-present
Senior Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, 1992-present
Professor Adjoint, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995-present
Assistant Professor Adjoint, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992-1995
Post-Doctorate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, 1990-1992
Summer Post-Doctorate, Rowland Institute, Cambridge, 1990
Research Assistant, MIT, 1985-1990 Teaching Fellow, Harvard Extension School, 1989
Research Assistant, Stanford University, 1982-1985
Honors and Awards
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2000
Fellow, Optical Society of America, Elected 2000 R. W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 1999
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, 1999
Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
Fellow, The American Physical Society, Elected 1997
I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, 1997
King Faisal International Prize in Science, 1997
National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, 1997
Carl Zeiss Award, Ernst Abbe Fund, 1996
Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics, 1996
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1996
Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, 1996
Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995-96
Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, National Institute of Science and Technology, 1995
Firestone Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 1985
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988
Information above from
http://www.colorado.edu/NewsServices/nobel/cornell.html
Eric A. Cornell receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty the King at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
Photo: Hans Mehlin, Nobel e-Museum
Information above from
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/cornell-award.html
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