FACTOID #8:Israel's per capita military expenditure is the highest in the world, at over $1,400 per person. Syria, still officially at war with Israel, spends $46.51 per person on its military.
CarlWieman was born on March 26, 1951, in Corvallis, Oregon.
Wieman began his teaching career at the University of Michigan as an assistant research scientist in 1977 and then served as an assistant professor of physics from 1979 to 1984.
Wieman's most recent honor is the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2001, which he shares with Eric A. Cornell, senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate.
Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon and graduated from Corvallis High School.
Wieman currently serves as Chair of the Board on Science Education of the National Academy of Sciences.
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