Statement From The Family Of Eric Cornell
Dec. 1, 2004

"Eric reached a milestone recently. He is no longer in intensive care. He remains in the hospital, letting his skin grafts heal and working on his rehabilitation.

"Eric is no longer connected to any tubes. He is on a regular diet and even ate turkey on Thanksgiving Day.

"Eric is still on a lot of medications, but can now take them orally instead of intravenously or through a feeding tube."

NOTE:

Nobel laureate Eric Cornell is a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Cornell and Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at CU-Boulder, led a team of physicists that created the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 for their creation of the new form of matter.

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