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Eric Allin Cornell (Physicist)

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

— Eric Allin Cornell wit

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

— Eric Allin Cornell art

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

— Eric Allin Cornell man

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell school

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

— Eric Allin Cornell men

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.

— Eric Allin Cornell art

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

— Eric Allin Cornell future

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

— Eric Allin Cornell dying

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

— Eric Allin Cornell learning

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

— Eric Allin Cornell life

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

— Eric Allin Cornell good

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

— Eric Allin Cornell art

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

— Eric Allin Cornell school

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

— Eric Allin Cornell read

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

— Eric Allin Cornell culture

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

— Eric Allin Cornell sin

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

— Eric Allin Cornell language

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

— Eric Allin Cornell suspense

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

— Eric Allin Cornell reading

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