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MIT PHYSICIST SHARES NOBEL FOR WORK ON MATTER
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CAMBRIDGE - A professor of physics at MIT and two other scientists
were granted the Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for creating a new
form of matter in which the atoms "sing in unison."
Wolfgang Ketterle, a soft-spoken German physicist who came to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, shared the prize with
two researchers in Colorado for discovering how to cool atoms to the
brink of absolute zero and create a "Bose-Einstein condensate." The
atoms form a cloud unlike anyt...
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