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Remember when
Five years ago today, two of the three 2001 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell, were honored at the Capitol by the General Assembly. Gov. Bill Owens signed a proclamation honoring their achievements and named the day for them.
Cornell and Wieman, University of Colorado professors, received the prize for leading a team in the creation of the world’s first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. The new form of matter, predicted by Albert Einstein, allows scientists to study the small world of quantum physics.
Cornell, who also worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology when they won the award, has continued with his research at CU. Wieman left the university last year to lead a science education initiative at the University of British Columbia.
Source: Denver Post archives
A second state song sought
A lawmaker wants to make John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” Colorado’s second state song.
The current state song is “Where the Columbines Grow.” “That’s not a song that a lot of Coloradans know or can hum the lyrics to,” said Sen. Bob Hagedorn, D-Aurora.
Hagedorn wants to introduce legislation this month that would make “Rocky Mountain High” an official state song without displacing “Where the Columbines Grow.” He said most of the copyright arrangements have been made.
Denver, who lived in Aspen, died in a plane crash near Monterey, Calif., on Oct. 12, 1997.
Online: Hear audio clips of the songs, vote in our poll and register your favorites songs for consideration. www.denverpost.com
Other musical tributes to Colo.
John Denver’s tribute to the Centennial State is by no means the only one.
Other notable Colorado songs, in no particular order:
Bob Seger, “Get out of Denver;” Jackson Browne, “Bound for Colorado;” Ozark Mountain Daredevils, “Colorado Song;” and Stephen Stills, “Colorado.” And what about the old elementary-school favorite, “If I had a wagon”?
Can we quote you on that?
“Chris, you’re on the other side. We traded.”
– Sen. Jim Isgar, D-Hesperus, to Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, who found Sen. Steve Johnson, R-Fort Collins, sitting in his chair in the Senate chamber.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
