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What was the groundbreaking achievement made by Eric Allin Cornell and his team?

  • Synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate

  • Discovering a new planet

  • Creating a new chemical element

  • Inventing the telescope

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Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, along with Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman, for their achievement in synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate. A Bose–Einstein condensate is a state of matter in which a large number of bosons are cooled to very low temperatures and condensed into a single quantum state.
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