Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal thirds to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman for achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute alkali atom gases and investigating the resulting condensates.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official 2001 summary: equal thirds; dilute alkali-gas condensation and early fundamental studies of condensate properties.