A nobel laureate living among us TNN, Mar 23, 2010,

BANGALORE: Imagine living next door to a Nobel laureate. That's what residents of Nagarjuna Green Woods (NGW) in Marathalli discovered.

Eric A Cornell, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 2001, has been living in Bangalore with his family for the last three months.

Excited, residents of NGW organized a felicitation for Eric and had him address children on his achievements. The programme started with vedic chants by children, followed by dance performances.

Cornell then explained the Bose-Einstein condensation theory in a creative way to the little ones. He also shared childhood memories and how he got inclined to Physics, mostly inspired by his parents.

His wife Celeste Landry, who is a teacher in Mathematics, also joined him in explaining some of their memorable moments. Their daughters, Eliza and Sophie, enacted the moment when Cornell received the Nobel Prize call.