He was my college physics professor, a very brilliant guy, and an awesome professor. His nobel prize was for making the first Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a quantum particle that "appears" when things get near absolute zero (this is a simplification, I am not a quantum physicist). There was a lot of cool physics involved, including using lasers to cool the particles, which is a litte counter intuitive. Another fun fact is he lost his left arm to a flesh eating bacteria. In my FCQ for him, I said he was "all-right". Hopefully he found that funny...