1951 - Today
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, Carl Wieman ranks 371 out of 717. Before 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.
1900 - 1988
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 365
1798 - 1895
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 366
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 367
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 368
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 369
1724 - 1802
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 370
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 371
1875 - 1960
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 372
1903 - 1992
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 373
1762 - 1834
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 374
1908 - 2003
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 375
1909 - 1991
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 376
1914 - 1984
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 377
Among people born in 1951, Carl Wieman ranks 91. Before 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.
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 85
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 86
1951 - 1994
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 87
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 88
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 89
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 90
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 91
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 92
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 93
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 94
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 95
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 96
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 97
Among people born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 2,451 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 2,445
1959 - Present
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 2,446
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 2,447
1961 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 2,448
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 2,449
1941 - 2012
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 2,450
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 2,451
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 2,452
1902 - 1984
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 2,453
1834 - 1916
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 2,454
1987 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 2,455
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 2,456
1927 - 2006
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 2,457
Among physicists born in United States, Carl Wieman ranks 77. Before 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).
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 75
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 77
1909 - 1991
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 78
1868 - 1955
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 79
1914 - 1997
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 80
1906 - 1968
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 81
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 83