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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