Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school’s DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Chess

School

Writing

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Modern

Old Fashioned

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.

Way

Wife

Years

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Brother

Mother

Sister

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Effort

School

Smart

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Math

School

Years

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Culture

Teenage

Years

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.

Different

Energy

Sparks

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don’t involve the use of a laser.

Lasers

Physics

Use

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Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school’s DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

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.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don’t involve the use of a laser.

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