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Encyclopedia > Carl Edwin Wieman

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. In a Time magazine article (April 10, 2000), Wieman was quoted, "We get to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero."


Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle.






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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Carl Wieman (367 words)
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.
Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold (257 words)
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995 with his colleague Eric Cornell.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1951.
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