Carl Wieman

Carl Edwin Wieman
Wieman in 2011
Born	(1951-03-26) March 26, 1951 (age 73) Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
Alma mater	MIT Stanford University
Known for	Bose–Einstein condensate
Awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1993) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1996) King Faisal International Prize in Science (1997) Lorentz Medal (1998) The Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize in Physics (2001) Oersted Medal (2007) Yidan Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of British Columbia University of Colorado Boulder University of Michigan Stanford University
Thesis	Polarization Spectroscopy and the Measurement of the Lamb Shift in the Ground State of Hydrogen (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Theodor W. Hänsch
Doctoral students	Wendy Adams Christopher Monroe

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.^[1] 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".^[2]