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Who are the two other physicists that shared the Nobel Prize with Eric?

  • Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

  • Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton

  • Carl E. Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle

  • Ernest O. Lawrence and Robert Millikan

Answer

Carl E. Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle are the two other physicists that shared the Nobel Prize with Eric. They were all awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for their work on Bose-Einstein condensation. Wieman and Ketterle worked independently to create the first Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a state of matter in which atoms behave as a single entity.
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