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From top left: Eric Cornell, Lene Hau, Wolfgang Ketterle, Daniel Kleppner and Carl Weiman
A new PBS special on low-temperature physics will feature interviews with five OSA members. The two-part documentary, titled Absolute Zero, premieres this month. Eric Cornell, Lene Hau, Wolfgang Ketterle, Daniel Kleppner and Carl Weiman share their insights on the race to reach absolute zero. Cornell, Ketterle and Weiman won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a new form of matter that exists at near absolute zero temperatures, called the Bose-Einstein condensate. Kleppner and Hau have also made significant contributions by achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in hydrogen and reducing the speed of light to 17 m/s by optically inducing quantum interference in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
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