Statement From The Family Of Eric Cornell
Dec. 17, 2004

"Eric was discharged from the hospital yesterday. He still has a lot of healing and rehabilitation ahead of him and will not be returning to work for several months.

"Our family is very happy to be together for this holiday season and we would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy new year."

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.

Contact: Peter Caughey, (303) 492-4007

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