Carl Wieman - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2001
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Carl Wieman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2001
for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
3/26/1951
place of birth
Corvallis
Age
75 years
educated at
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • end time: 1973
  • Stanford University
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1977
  • Corvallis High School
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1995
  • American Physical Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • University of Michigan
  • JILA
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Stanford University
field of work
  • science education
  • physics
work location
  • Boulder
  • Stanford
occupation
  • educational theorist
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • academic
notable work
  • PhET Interactive Simulations
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