Editing Carl Wieman (section)

{{Short description|American physicist (b. 1951)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Carl Edwin Wieman 
| image             = Carl Wieman in 2024 01.jpg
| image_size        = 200px
| caption           = Wieman in 2024
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1951|3|26}}
| birth_place       = [[Corvallis, Oregon]], U.S.
| field             = [[Physics]]
| work_institutions = [[University of British Columbia]]<br>[[University of Colorado Boulder]]<br>[[University of Michigan]]<br>[[Stanford University]]
| alma_mater        = [[MIT]]<br>[[Stanford University]]
| known_for         = [[Bose&ndash;Einstein condensate]]
| thesis_title      = Polarization Spectroscopy and the Measurement of the Lamb Shift in the Ground State of Hydrogen
| thesis_url        = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302866643/
| thesis_year       = 1977
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Theodor W. Hänsch]]
| doctoral_students = [[Wendy Adams]]<br>[[Christopher Monroe]]
| prizes            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award|E. O. Lawrence Award]] (1993)
* [[Fritz London Memorial Prize]] (1996)
* [[King Faisal International Prize|King Faisal International Prize in Science]] (1997)
* [[Lorentz Medal]] (1998)
* [[The Franklin Institute Awards|The Benjamin Franklin Medal]] (2000)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2001)
* [[Oersted Medal]] (2007)
* [[Yidan Prize|Yidan Prize in Education Research]] (2020)
}}
}}
'''Carl Edwin Wieman''' (born March 26, 1951) is an American [[physicist]] and [[educationist]] at [[Stanford University]], and currently the A.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;White Professor at Large at [[Cornell University]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url        = https://www.science.org/content/article/carl-wieman-takes-physics-education-jobs-stanford
 |title      = Carl Wieman Takes Physics, Education Jobs at Stanford
 |last       = Mervis
 |first      = Jeffrey
 |date       = 28 August 2013
 |website    = sciencemag.org
 |access-date = 23 November 2013
}}</ref> In 1995, while at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]], he and [[Eric Allin Cornell]] produced the first true [[Bose&ndash;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|Yidan Prize in Education Research]] for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yidanprize.org/media-center/news/yidan-prize-laureates-2020-professor-carl-wieman-ms-lucy-lake-and-ms-angeline-murimirwa-were-awarded-for-their-contribution-to-stem-and-womens-education/ |title=Yidan Prize Laureates 2020. Professor Carl Wieman, Ms Lucy Lake and Ms Angeline Murimirwa were awarded for their contribution to STEM and women's education |date=23 September 2020 |website=Yidan Prize |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002113750/https://yidanprize.org/media-center/news/yidan-prize-laureates-2020-professor-carl-wieman-ms-lucy-lake-and-ms-angeline-murimirwa-were-awarded-for-their-contribution-to-stem-and-womens-education/ |archive-date=2020-10-02}}</ref>