In October2004, his left arm and shoulder were amputated in an attempt to stop the spread of necrotizing fasciitis; he was discharged from hospital in mid-December, having recovered from the infection.
External link
University of Colorado page for Eric Cornell (http://www.colorado.edu/NewsServices/nobel/cornell.html)
Bose-Einstein Condensate page on NIST Web site (http://www.bec.nist.gov/)
ERIC MEYER has been working with the web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards.
In his personal time, Eric acts as List Chaperone of the highly active css-discuss mailing list, which he co-founded with John Allsopp of Western Civilisation and is now supported by evolt.org.
Eric lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you’ve been led to believe, and for nine years was the host of “Your Father’s Oldsmobile,” a Big Band-era radio show heard weekly on WRUW 91.1-FM in Cleveland.
Cornell is a research physicist and fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Necrotizing fasciitis, caused by the bacteria that causes strep throat, is a serious illness that caused Cornell to be hospitalized at the end of October, 2004.
Nobel laureate EricCornell, fellow and research physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, talks with graduate students (from left to right) Laura Sinclair and Russell Stutz and research associate Aaron Leanhardt in his laboratory.