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Nobel physicist has flesh-eating disease
BOULDER, CO, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Nobel Prize-winning physicist and University of Colorado adjutant professor Eric Cornell is reportedly suffering from a rare "flesh-eating" bacterial disease. The Denver Post said Sunday Cornell is in critical condition after becoming ill last week with necrotizing fasciitis -- an infection caused by bacteria that typically causes strep throat. Cornell's "condition is treated with aggressive surgery to stop the spread of the bacteria," said a statement from his family. Cornell, a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 with Colorado University Professor Carl Wieman for leading a team in the creation of the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. That new form of matter allows scientists to study the small world of quantum physics. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-31 |
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