칼 위먼

소개

칼 에드윈 위먼(영어: Carl Edwin Wieman, 1951년 3월 26일 ~ )은 미국의 물리학자이다. 2001년에 알칼리 원자의 희석 가스에서 보스-아인슈타인 응축에 관한 실현과 그 응축체의 속성에 관한 기초 연구로 에릭 얼린 코넬, 볼프강 케털리와 함께 노벨 물리학상을 수상했다.

Carl Edwin Wieman 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) an ultracold state of matter; and, in 2001, they and Wolfgang Ketterle 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. In 2020, Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".