Carl Wieman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carl Wieman

Nobel prize winning US physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University.
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.