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Carl Wieman

1951 - Today

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Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Wieman has received more than 236,805 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Wieman is the 371st most popular physicist (up from 378th in 2019), the 2,451st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,648th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carl Wieman ranks 371 out of 717Before him are George Uhlenbeck, Franz Ernst Neumann, Edwin Hall, Ralph Asher Alpher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, and Franz Aepinus. After him are Maurice de Broglie, Arpad Elo, Giovanni Aldini, Johanna Budwig, Edwin H. Land, and Vladimir Chelomey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Carl Wieman ranks 91Before him are Isabel Preysler, Horst Hrubesch, Jack Unterweger, Zdravko Čolić, Laimdota Straujuma, and Karen Allen. After him are Lynda Carter, John McTiernan, Julian Schnabel, Behgjet Pacolli, Karekin II, and Beverly D'Angelo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 2,451 out of 18,182Before him are Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Richie Sambora (1959), Karen Allen (1951), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Kathy Reichs (1948), and Nora Ephron (1941). After him are Lin Shaye (1943), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Hetty Green (1834), Zac Efron (1987), Paul Milgrom (1948), and Allan Kaprow (1927).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 77Before him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901). After him are Edwin H. Land (1909), Robert W. Wood (1868), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Chester Carlson (1906), Philip Abelson (1913), and Leonard Susskind (1940).