Resumen de Deborah S. Jin.

• Focuses on the creation of a molecular condensate by Deborah S. Jin, a fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colo. Last year Deborah Jin and her colleagues provided what may be the perfect test bed by finding a way to pair up other members of the unsociable class of particles to which electrons belong: fermions. In November 2003 she and her team produced a molecular condensate in which the paired fermions were chemically bound--an important landmark en route to the accomplishment but still short of the goal. Although fermions cannot be imaged directly, Jin devised a way to photograph a pattern that betrayed the fermionic state of the condensate. The makers of the earlier Bose-Einstein condensate have already claimed a Nobel Prize for their accomplishment, and Jin seems a sure bet to eventually do the same.