Carl Wieman

Nobel prize winning US physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1951 · age 75

Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University.

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2020Yidan Prize for Education ResearchAward2018Excellence in Physics Education AwardAward2007Oersted MedalAward2001Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward2000Benjamin Franklin MedalAward1999Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser ScienceAwardR. W. Wood PrizeAward1997King Faisal International Prize in ScienceAward1996Fritz London AwardAwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture AwardAward1995Einstein Prize for Laser ScienceAward1994Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface PhysicsAward1993Ernest Orlando Lawrence AwardAward1990Guggenheim FellowshipAward1951Born26 March 1951

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Yidan Prize for Education Research2020

Excellence in Physics Education Award2018

Oersted Medal2007

Nobel Prize in Physics2001

Benjamin Franklin Medal2000

R. W. Wood Prize1999

Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science1999

Lorentz Medal1998

King Faisal International Prize in Science1997

Fritz London Award1996

Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award1996

Einstein Prize for Laser Science1995

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics1994

Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award1993

Guggenheim Fellowship1990

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Fellow of the Optical Society

Newcomb Cleveland Prize

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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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