Categories: 1951 births | Nobel Prize in Physics winners
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 billionth of a degree of absolute zero."
Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle.