When Carl Wieman of the University of 欧美口爆视频 at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology receive the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics on April 27, the awards ceremony will be broadcast live on the World Wide Web.
For the first time, the Franklin Institute's awards ceremony in Philadelphia can be seen via computer in real time at . The ceremony, hosted by CBS news anchor Charles Osgood, will begin at 7 p.m. EDT.
Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be cited for experimentally confirming Satyendra Bose's and Albert Einstein's 1924 prediction that a dilute gas condensate can display properties usually found only on an atomic or molecular scale.
Since 1824, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has bestowed awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to science and technology. Previous laureates include Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Marie Curie, Edwin Hubbell and Steven Hawking.