When was Carl Wieman born?

Carl Wieman was born on 26 March 1951 in Corvallis.

Where did Carl Wieman study?

Carl Wieman was educated at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Corvallis High School.

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Carl Wieman

Nobel prize winning US physicist

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Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell produced the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), an ultracold state of matter using rubidium atoms. In 2001, they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Wolfgang Ketterle “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”.

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Born: 26 March 1951 wd
Place of birth: Corvallis wd
Citizenship: United States wd
Occupation: physicist, university teacher, academic, educational theorist wd
Education: Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Corvallis High School wd
Official website: profiles.stanford.edu/carl-wieman wd

Awards wd

Guggenheim Fellowship (1990)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000)
Lorentz Medal (1998)
King Faisal Prize in Science (1997)
Oersted Medal (2007)
Fritz London Award (1996)
Einstein Prize for Laser Science (1995)
R. W. Wood Prize (1999)
Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1996)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990)
Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (1994)
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (1999)
Fellow of the Optical Society (2000)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1993)

About

Wieman currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, as well as the DRC Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. He has been active in education, promoting peer instruction and founding the open online PhET Interactive Simulations. In 2020, Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".

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When was Carl Wieman born?: Carl Wieman was born on 26 March 1951 in Corvallis.
Where did Carl Wieman study?: Carl Wieman was educated at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Corvallis High School.

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