The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

The year before his graduation he moved back to California with his mother and finiEric Allin Cornelld high school at San Francisco's Lowell High School a local magnet school for academically talented kids. Biography
Cornell was born in Palo Alto California where his parents were completing graduate degrees at nearby Stanford University. For synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 Cornell Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.

For their efforts Cornell Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. Wieman was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.