
Carl Wieman
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Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently 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; and, in 2001, they and Wolfgang Ketterle (for further BEC studies) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wieman currently holds a joint appointment as Pro
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Q&A: Yidan Prize winner Carl Wieman talks disparities in STEM, education accessibility
'Active' science learning is better than lectures, Nobel laureate Carl Wieman says
Nobelist Carl Wieman Moves to Stanford to Focus on Better Science Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Carl Wieman and AAAS Senior Scientists: Bringing the Science to Science Education - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)