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7-14-95. NYPaper Page Oner:
"2 Groups of Physicists Produce Matter That Einstein
Postulated."
By chilling a cloud of atoms to a temperature barely
above absolute zero, scientists at a Colorado laboratory
have at last created a bizarre type of matter that had
eluded experimenters ever since its potential existence
was postulated by Albert Einstein 70 years ago. The
creation of this Bose-Einstein condensate -- named for
Einstein, and the Indian theorist Satyendra Nath Bose --
was hailed yesterday as the basis of a new field of
research expected to explain some fundamental mysteries
of atomic physics. A Texas group later produced similar
results. The achievement should allow physicists to peer
directly into the realm of the ultrasmall. MYS_fit
[This was also reported in The Economist of July 1.]