Number 561 #3, October 15, 2001 by Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein
Nobel Prize Addendum
Concerning last week's item on the 2001 physics prize (Update
560), here are a few references to some of the prominent articles
concerning Bose-Einstein condensates published in Physical
Review Letters in recent years: first lithium BEC, Bradley
et al., 28 August 1995; first sodium BEC (Ketterle), Davis
et al., 27 November 1995; first hydrogen BEC, Fried
et al., 2 November 1998; helium BEC, Pereira
Dos Santos et al., 16 April 2001; realization of an atom
laser, Mewes et
al., 27 January 1997; superfluid properties seen in BEC, Onofrio
et al.,11 September 2000; first all-optical BEC, Barrett
et al., 2 July 2001.