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

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

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

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 head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

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

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