Carl Wieman

Carl E. Wieman, (born March 26, 1951, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.), American physicist who, with Eric A. Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).

After studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1973), Wieman earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. He then taught and conducted research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor until 1984, when he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. In addition to serving as a professor, he directed the school’s Science Education Initiative (2006–13). He headed a similar initiative at the University of British Columbia (2007–13), where he also taught. In 2013 Wieman began teaching at Stanford University.

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