American physicist whose experiments using laser light to cool
and trap atoms earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997.
He shared the award with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji,
who also developed methods of laser cooling and atom trapping.
One result of the development of laser-cooling techniques was
the first observation, in 1995, of the Bose-Einstein condensate,
a new state of matter originally predicted 70 years earlier by
Albert Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. In
this state atoms are so chilled and so slow that they, in
effect, merge and behave as one single quantum entity that is
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