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This paper discusses the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas and the work in laser cooling and trapping, spin polarized hydrogen, and low temperature atomic collisions that led to it.
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Wieman, C.E. The creation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a cold vapor. Czech J Phys 46 (Suppl 6), 2923–2927 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548092
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