Editor's: Photographers and reporters are welcome to attend two gatherings where the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be viewed by live satellite downlink: the JILA auditorium on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus and the NIST auditorium at 325 Broadway in Boulder. The events are not open to the public.
A live Webcast of the 2001 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, in which Carl E. Wieman of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder and Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will receive the Nobel Prize in physics, will be available at .
Anyone with Internet access and the appropriate software may view the ceremony as it occurs in Stockholm, Sweden, between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. MST.
The ceremony also may be viewed on Boulder cable television channel 62 and on ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ campus cable television channel 5.
Wieman is a distinguished professor of physics and a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and NIST. Cornell is a senior scientist at NIST in Boulder, a fellow of JILA and a professor adjoint at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder.
The two were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics along with Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wieman and Cornell were cited for their landmark 1995 creation of the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter that occurs at just a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
The condensate allows scientists to study the strange world of quantum physics as if they are looking through a giant magnifying glass. The discovery also established a new branch of atomic physics.
The three scientists will share the $943,000 prize.
Also attending the ceremony in Stockholm at the invitation of Wieman and Cornell are three members of the research team who worked on the initial Bose-Einstein condensate: Michael Anderson, Jason Ensher and Michael Matthews. Anderson was a postdoctoral researcher at the time of the discovery and Ensher and Matthews were graduate students.
Both Wieman and Cornell teach ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder undergraduate and graduate students. They become the second and third Nobel Prize winners at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder, and Cornell is the second for NIST.
Thomas Cech, a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was a co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Sydney Altman of Yale University for research on RNA. William Phillips, a NIST fellow, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.
Cech and Phillips also will be attending this year's special gathering honoring the 100th anniversary of the prizes.
For more information about Wieman and Cornell visit the Web site at .