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| | NIST's Cornell Elected to National Academy of Sciences |
 | | Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, it was announced today. |
 | | Cornell, a NIST fellow and member of the Quantum Physics Division of NIST's Physics Laboratory, also is a fellow of JILA, a joint endeavor with the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a professor adjoint in the University's Department of Physics. |
 | | Cornell's research, studying the properties and behavior of Bose-Einstein condensates, has garnered world-wide recognition ever since he and another JILA fellow, Carl Weiman, a CU-Boulder professor, created the first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter, in 1995. |
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