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Carl E. Wieman

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Carl E. Wieman
Full Name
of the recipient
Carl E. Wieman
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award2001
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withEric A. Cornell (33.3%)
Wolfgang Ketterle (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award
for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
Affiliation
at the Time of Award
University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, CO, USA
Place of BirthCorvallis, OR, United States USA
Date of Birth26 March 1951
Age
at the time of Award
49 years
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