Nobel Laureate to Speak

[CajunFun]

In celebration of UL's 125th anniversary, Dr. Eric Cornell, will speak at UL October 24th. Cornell was the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics, together with Carl E. Wieman, for synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allin_Cornell

[Turbine]

Eric Allin Cornell is married to a Landry, any local connection?

On the 125th anniversary of the law establishing a yet to be located school in Southwest Louisiana.

The story about how it came to be Lafayette is interesting.

A donation of land and a self imposed school tax is what beat out the other towns in consideration, like Opelousas, New Iberia, Crowley, and others.

[CajunFun]

Eric Allin Cornell is married to a Landry, any local connection?

On the 125th anniversary of the law establishing a yet to be located school in Southwest Louisiana.

The story about how it came to be Lafayette is interesting.

A donation of land and a self imposed school tax is what beat out the other towns in consideration, like Opelousas, New Iberia, Crowley, and others.

And LUS.

SLII wanted electricity... so just 3 years after the first public demonstration of electricity at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the citizens in the tiny town of Lafayette voted to create one of the first electrical systems in the country.* It would be another 30 years before Scott got electricity, and they were also bidding for UL back in the 1890's.

Which is echoed in a modern advance: LUS eventually built the most powerful community intranet in the world, one to rival the Google, Microsoft and SUN campuses.

But that idea parallels the original story. That intranet initiative wasn't original to big ol' Lafayette. Minuscule Palmetto pioneered the process, and we took notes.

*Interesting side note: Cajuns & Creoles love to travel; you can go to the airport on a Thursday or Friday, and see groups of people, informally dressed, heading out to NY, or even Paris or London. Somehow, way back in 1898 enough community leaders took the long & expensive train ride to Chicago, paid for hotel rooms, attended the Fair and saw the demonstration, and were able to sell it to the voters when they came back. Consider the challenges: How do you describe the miracle of electricity to people who have never seen it; to people who live in, as William Manchester described it, A World Lit only by Fire?

[CajunVic]

. . . and it became a reality only because of the FIRE in the souls of the Cajuns and Creoles, a FIRE which remains today . . . except when JBE gets involved . . .

[Turbine]

Love the back story Joe.

Thanks

[CajunFun]

Eric Allin Cornell is married to a Landry, any local connection?

Wit' a name like 'Célèste', mais what you t'ink?

https://boulderbeat.news/bbop/celeste-landry/

[BeauCajun]

Wit' a name like 'Célèste', mais what you t'ink?

https://boulderbeat.news/bbop/celeste-landry/

I see he met her at Stanford.

[CajunFun]

I see he met her at Stanford.

Is that bar still open?

[CajunFun]

PS Lafayette had to have had one of the first electrical systems in the world. Which is all the more impressive when you consider that when Lafayette citizens created LUS, the town was only about 3,000 people...

[BeauCajun]

Both celebrating 125 years this year. Nice combo.