GK QUESTION#3489
In 1995, with whom did Eric Cornell experimentally produce the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a rarefied gas of rubidium atoms at extremely low temperatures?
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A. Carl Wieman
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Carl Wieman worked with Eric Cornell and their JILA collaborators to produce the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of rubidium atoms in 1995. Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle later shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. The question asks about the 1995 rubidium experiment, rather than the later award alone.