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Eric Allin Cornell
American
Physicist
Born:
Dec 19
,
1961
Chinese
First
High
Me
School
Year
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
Eric Allin Cornell
School
Mother
Father
Engineering
High
Civil
High School
MIT
Taught
English
Professor
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
Eric Allin Cornell
Me
Made
Trouble
Most
Read
Teachers
Less
Found
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
Eric Allin Cornell
Remember
Space
Building
Back
Air
Parachute
Would
Open
Blast
Safely
Rocket
Rockets
Wonder
Model
Suspenseful
Certainly
Fun
Watch
Bring
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
Eric Allin Cornell
School
Mother
Year
Before
Sister
Final
Francisco
High
Brother
High School
Just
Moved
San
San Francisco
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
Eric Allin Cornell
Future
Wife
Met
Took
Our
Later
Our Lives
Ways
Marry
Ten
More
Ten Years
Until
Although
Were
Years
Than
Us
Separate
Many
Lives
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
Eric Allin Cornell
Me
You
Energy
Distinguish
Detector
Various
Particles
Sort
How
Different
Explained
Spark
Chambers
Amount
Basis
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
Eric Allin Cornell
Travel
Learning
Language
Lesson
Characters
Thousands
Had
Written
Perhaps
Most
Learned
Provided
Experiences
Chinese
Interesting
Really
Useful
Many
Proficiency
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
Eric Allin Cornell
Good
Something
Doing
Came
Being
Realize
Avoid
Reason
Hardly
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
Eric Allin Cornell
Year
Every
Still
Passing
Proves
Surprises
Left
Us
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