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My favourite Nobel prize: creating Bose–Einstein condensates in the lab

26 Sep 2019 Susan Curtis

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Susan Curtis argues the case for the 2001 prize, which was awarded for the first experiments on Bose–Einstein condensates

Bose-Einstein condensate
Singing in unison: the iconic image that revealed the formation of a Bose–Einstein condensate in the lab (Courtesy: NIST/JILA/CU-Boulder)
It’s difficult to pick one favourite Nobel prize among the many achievements that have been honour

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Susan Curtis is a contributing editor to Physics World
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