Carl Wieman

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Carl Wieman (left) and Eric Cornell (right) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26 1951 ) is an American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell ), in 1995 , produced a Bose-Einstein condensate . In a Time magazine article ( April 10 , 2000 ), Wieman was quoted, "We get to within a billion th of a degree of absolute zero ."

Wieman was born in Corvallis , Oregon . Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his PhD. from Stanford University in 1977 ; he was also given a Doctorate of Science (Honorary) from the University of Chicago awarded in 1997 . In 2001 , he won the Nobel Prize in Physics , along with Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle . In 2004 , he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities.

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