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Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for fundamental studies of the Bose-Einstein condensate. He shared the prize with Eric Allin Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle. Wieman and Cornell had produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995 while at the University of Colorado Boulder.
PhET Interactive Simulations is a web-based open educational resource founded by Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado Boulder. It provides an extensive suite of interactive simulations covering physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics, designed to improve how these subjects are taught and learned.
Carl Wieman earned his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago in 1997.
Carl Wieman served as Associate Director of Science at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was confirmed by the Senate on the 16th of September 2010 and left the post in June 2012 to battle multiple myeloma.
The Yidan Prize in Education Research was awarded to Carl Wieman in 2020 for his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education. It is a major international prize recognizing achievement in education.
Carl Wieman promotes Eric Mazur's peer instruction method, in which teachers pose multiple-choice concept questions during class and students respond using small wireless clicker devices. When a large proportion of students choose a wrong answer, they discuss the question among themselves before answering again.