Carl Wieman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carl Wieman
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Mar 26, 1951(1951-03-26)
Age	73
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Pisces

Carl Wieman Biography

Carl Wieman is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on March 26, 1951 in Oregon, United States. He was a physicist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. His invention of Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995 earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics. From 2010 to 2012, he was the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Associate director.

He is a contemporary to fellow American physicist He is a contemporary of fellow American physicist Michio Kaku..

Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon to N. Orr Wieman and Alison Marjorie Fry in the United States and graduated from Corvallis High School. His paternal grandfather Henry Nelson Wieman was a religious philosopher of German descent and his mother had white Anglo-Saxon Protestant family background. Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977; he was also awarded a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from the University of Chicago in 1997. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1998. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Eric Allin Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle, for fundamental studies of the Bose-Einstein condensate. In 2004, he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities.

In the past several years, Wieman has been particularly involved with efforts at improving science education and has conducted educational research on science instruction. Wieman served as Chair of the Board on Science Education of the National Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2009. He has used and promotes Eric Mazur’s peer instruction, a pedagogical system where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless “clicker” devices. If a large proportion of the class chooses a wrong answer, students discuss among themselves and reply again. In 2007, Wieman was awarded the Oersted Medal, which recognizes notable contributions to the teaching of physics, by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

He was born in Oregon and graduated from Corvallis High School.

Carl Wieman Net Worth

Carl Wieman is one of the richest Physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carl Wieman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended MIT and Stanford University, where he earned his Ph.D.

He is part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival’s advisory board.

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell produced the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) 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 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.

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Carl Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carl Wieman celebrates birthday on March 26 of every year.

What did Carl Wieman do?

Carl Wieman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on super cooled atoms but over the last three decades he has also been applying a scientific approach to something different: improving education.

What is the groundbreaking experiment succeeded by Carl Wieman and Eric

Cornell 1995?

In June 1995 Cornell and Wieman succeeded in creating this extreme state of matter for the first time by using the newly developed techniques of laser cooling to take a cloud of rubidium atoms to near absolute zero. Ketterle repeated this feat a few months later with sodium atoms.

Who won the Nobel Prize for education?

Just recently, Hanushek was awarded the prestigious, $3.9 million 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Research for his work strengthening the bridge between economics and education. I reached out to chat with him about winning “education’s Nobel Prize,” his work, and lessons learned during an iconic career.

What is the subatomic particle named after Bose?

Bose-Einstein condensates were first predicted theoretically by Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974), an Indian physicist who also discovered the subatomic particle named for him, the boson.

What did Lene Hau want to do with a Bose-Einstein condensate?

She was also awarded tenure in 1999, and is now Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard. In 2001 she became the first person to stop light completely , using a Bose–Einstein condensate to achieve this.