MEDIA ADVISORY
Nobel laureate Eric Cornell, a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be available to meet with the media on April 12 to discuss his recovery from necrotizing fasciitis.
Cornell and his wife, Celeste Landry, will be in room 4 of the Coors/Events Conference Center on the CU-Boulder campus at 10 a.m. Cornell will start with brief remarks and will then take questions from the media. The event is not open to the public.
Necrotizing fasciitis, caused by the bacteria that causes strep throat, is a serious illness that caused Cornell to be hospitalized at the end of October, 2004. He was discharged from the hospital on Dec. 16, 2004, and has been undergoing rehabilitation and recovery since then.
Cornell and Carl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics at CU-Boulder, led a team of physicists that created the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 for their creation of the new form of matter.
For more information contact Peter Caughey in the CU-Boulder Office of News Services at (303) 492-4007 or Patricia Schassburger or Gail Porter in the NIST Public Affairs Office at (301) 975-2762.
DIRECTIONS:
From Denver take U.S. 36 into Boulder until it turns into 28th Street and turn left (south) at the first traffic light, Colorado Avenue. Go west on Colorado Avenue until the next traffic light and turn left (south) onto Regent Drive. Park in the public lot to the south of the multi-level parking structure located on the east side of Regent Drive (Lot 436). Enter the Coors Events Center on the north side through the doors on the middle-level ramp above the loading dock. TV trucks can park by the Events Center loading dock (Lot 420). A media check-in will be set up down the hall.