Carl Wieman

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist. He works at Stanford University.^[1]

Carl Edwin Wieman
Wieman in 2011
Born	(1951-03-26) March 26, 1951 (age 74) Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	MIT Stanford University
Known for	Bose–Einstein condensate
Awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1993) King Faisal International Prize in Science (1997) Lorentz Medal (1998) The Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize in Physics (2001) Oersted Medal (2007) Yidan Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of British Columbia University of Colorado Boulder University of Michigan Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Theodor W. Hänsch
Doctoral students	Wendy Adams

In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell created the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.