Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, ... Sarah Gilbert, a visiting scholar at Stanford. E.S. But for the past two decades, his passion has been with education. Wieman will receive approximately $4 million in recognition of his work. Stanford professor and Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, an influential scholar whose work has shaped a new understanding of how to improve college science teaching and learning, was named a recipient of the 2020 Yidan Prize for education research on Wednesday.. He served as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in September 2010-12. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman was looking for a way to explain his research into Bose-Einstein condensates—strange assemblies of supercold atoms that lose their individuality and form “superatoms”—to both physicists and schoolchildren. Carl Wieman holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. L.D. C. S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Random House, New York (2006). The teaching practices inventory: a new tool for characterizing college and university teaching in mathematics and science. from MIT in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. Each recipient will receive $300,000 over the He was at the University of Colorado from 1984 to 2006 as a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar. Carl Wieman is a professor in the department of physics and in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford. The Yidan Prize is the world’s largest prize in education. Yet he’s devoted much of his career to improving the ways colleges and universities teach science, in his own classrooms and in one of the grandest experiments of his life: the multicampus Science Education Initiative. was a postdoctoral researcher working in the Carl Wieman (third author of this paper) Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) and had received training in physics education and learning research and methods of effective pedagogy while assisting with the teaching of six courses. The National Science Foundation today named physics Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder one of seven scientists and engineers in the United States to receive the first Director's Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. Prev Next. Prior to joining UBC, he served on the faculty at CU from 1984 to 2006 as a distinguished professor of physics and a presidential teaching scholar. Carl Wieman received his B.S. PDF 0 comments. Google Scholar; Download references Semantic Scholar profile for Carl E. Wieman, with 100 highly influential citations and 57 scientific research papers. Physics Today 67, 5, 43 (2014 ... Google Scholar; 2. When you think of Carl Wieman, you think of the Nobel Prize winner in physics who made the predictions of Bose and Einstein visible and tangible. Today, the Yidan Prize Foundation awarded Carl Wieman the prestigious Yidan Prize in Education Research for his “contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education.” The Yidan prizes are the world’s largest international prizes in education, providing honorees with nearly $4 million each. Wieman, C., & Gilbert, S. (2014). As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Carl Wieman could probably get away with being a mediocre teacher. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 13(3), 552–569. currently directs the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia and the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado. The award is NSF's "highest honor for excellence in both teaching and research."