While doing some research for his thesis, student Rowdy Boeyink found an original Albert Einstein manuscript.
The 16-page manuscript, dated 1924, shows the German-born genius working on his last major theory: "Quantentheorie des einatomigen idealen Gases" (Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas).
The theory stated that at temperatures near absolute zero, the atoms could reach a state
of such low energy that they collapsed into a new state where it was no longer possible to distinguish between them - a state known as Einstein-Bose condensation.
Only after 70 years, in 1995, University of Colorado at Boulder scientists Eric Cornell and Carl Wiemann created such a condensation using a gas of the element rubidium and were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2001, together with Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The university, near The Hague, says the newly-unearthed paper will be kept in its Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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