Nobel Insights: Discover the fascinating stories that link the world’s finest minds
Laser Light
Passion for Precision
Precision is at the core of Theodor Hansch's work with optical combs, a laser-based technique that i…
Controversy Resolved
James Clerk Maxwell and his unifying theory of electricity, magnetism and light. How Galvani was eve…
Field Work at 30,000 feet
Molina and his research group are conducting atmospheric studies and field measurements in Mexico Ci…
Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji charts the amazing advances made in the last four decades which have enabled …
Light and Matter
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji discusses new mechanisms for generating light, and how these form the basis o…
Learning about lasers
Eric Cornell ended up studying with Carl Wieman because laser cooling was the hot topic at the time.…
Unmasking Light in Different Ways
Sir William Herschel accidentally discovered infrared radiation, but Johann Ritter applied Kantian r…
Chance and Design
How a mixture of accidental discovery and Kantian reasoning uncovered infrared and ultraviolet radia…
Planets and Stars
Rutherford’s accidental discovery of the nucleus led to the planetary model of the atom. Sheldon Gla…
Interference Patterns
Experiments that demonstrate the wave-like nature of electrons helps us to understand the peculiarit…
A Strange New World
Materials behave differently at the nanoscale; most processes and phenomena are governed by quantum …
Precision Control
Klaus von Klitzing outlines the various techniques used in nanotechonology, and he shows how we are …
Stone Cold Science
Eric Cornell travels more than 9000 miles to give the students of Thiagarajar College of Engineering…
Best of Madurai
Thousands of budding scientists and engineers at Thiagarajar College of Engineering turned out to he…
Q&A Part 1
Why did Professor Cornell choose to measure the atom-surface forces using Bose-Einstein Condensates?
Student Questions Part 2
What were the methods involved in cooling atoms down to ten billionths of a degree above absolute ze…
Student Questions Part 11
What are the key areas that are yet to be explored in physics? Eric Cornell describes the exciting …
Main Lecture, Chongqing University
Five years after receiving the Nobel Prize for his discoveries relating to the Optical Frequency Com…
Atoms Have a Good Eye for Colour
How physicists take advantage of the fact that atoms can distinguish between different frequencies o…
Evaporative Cooling
How we can modify the phase transition and force evaporation to lower and lower temperatures in a "m…
Meeting Sanjana
Eric Cornell meets Engineering and Communications student Sanjana Sureshbabu and discusses the diffe…
The Power of Lasers
What type of lasers did Eric Cornell use? Eric Cornell delights in the technical nature of the stude…
The Issue of Funding
Was funding a factor in the early days of research for Eric Cornell? How different is it now?
Challenges of Communicating Research to the Scientific Community
How difficult was it for Eric Cornell to communicate the results of his BEC experiments to the wider…
Laser Cooling vs Other Methods
Other than laser cooling, are there any other methods to deduce the velocity of atoms?
A Universe of Applications
What discoveries in physics will lead to another great technological revolution that will change the…
