Wolfgang Ketterle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who Shared the 2001 physics prize with two colleagues, put his share towards a house and his children's education.

麻省理工学院物理学教授沃夫冈•克特勒与两位同事平分了2001年诺贝尔物理学奖，他用自己那份奖金买了栋房子，剩下的则用作孩子的教育资金。

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Actually creating such condensates fell to Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who made one out of rubidium atoms, and Wolfgang Ketterle, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who did the same with sodium.

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Just to prove that his atoms really were acting as single waves, Dr Ketterle made two condensates at the same time, and allowed them to merge, thus creating ripple-like interference patterns of the sort that might be seen if two stones were thrown simultaneously into the same pond.

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