Wolfgang Ketterle, Eric Cornell, and Carl Wieman at MIT achieve the first Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC: atoms at very low temperatures condense into a single object with peculiar properties) in the laboratory. Two thousand Rubidium atoms at 0.000000001K, reach the BEC for ten seconds, a single cold agglomerate (as if it were a single atom), shapeless and fragile as never before in the Universe. The 3 will share the Nobel Prize in 2001 for this.
