Carl Wieman

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26 1951) is an 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."

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March 26 - 1951 - American - Physicist - University of Colorado at Boulder - Eric Allin Cornell - 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate - Time magazine - April 10 - 2000 - Billion - Degree - Absolute zero

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Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his PhD. from Stanford University in 1977; he was also given a Doctorate of Science (Honorary) from the University of Chicago awarded in 1997. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle. In 2004, he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities.

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Corvallis - Oregon - B.S. - MIT - PhD. - Stanford University - 1977 - University of Chicago - 1997 - 2001 - Nobel Prize in Physics - Wolfgang Ketterle - 2004

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