There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.