Eric Allin Cornell — American Physicist born on December 19, 1961,

Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001... (wikipedia)

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.