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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) 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. In 2020, Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Wieman is the 335th most popular physicist (up from 373rd in 2019), the 1,940th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,249th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carl Wieman ranks 335 out of 851. Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, and Giovanni Battista Amici. After him are Jan Ingenhousz, John B. Goodenough, Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and Bruno Pontecorvo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Carl Wieman ranks 80. Before him are Jaco Pastorius, Ben Feringa, Michèle Mouton, Ronald DeFeo Jr., Angelique Rockas, and V. S. Ramachandran. After him are Emmanuel Todd, Karekin II, Fatmir Sejdiu, Barry Marshall, Lou Ferrigno, and Gustavo Santaolalla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 1,940 out of 20,380. Before him are George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), Jack Lew (1955), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Travis Scott (1991), Nicholas Ray (1911), and Ethan Allen (1738). After him are Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817), Nora Roberts (1950), Helen Hayes (1900), June Carter Cash (1929), George Dantzig (1914), and Frederick Cook (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 72. Before him are John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), and Steven Chu (1948). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John G. Trump (1907), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), and Karl Guthe Jansky (1905).

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