13 Facts About Carl Wieman

In 2020, Carl Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".

Carl Wieman's paternal grandfather Henry Nelson Wieman was a religious philosopher of German descent and his mother had white Anglo-Saxon Protestant family background.

Carl Wieman joined the University of British Columbia on 1 January 2007 and headed a well-endowed science education initiative there; he retained a twenty percent appointment at the University of Colorado Boulder to head the science education project he founded in Colorado.

On 1 September 2013, Carl Wieman joined Stanford University with a joint appointment in the physics department and the Graduate School of Education.

Carl Wieman served as Chair of the Board on Science Education of the National Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2009.

Carl Wieman has used and promotes Eric Mazur's peer instruction, a pedagogical system where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless "clicker" devices.

In 2007, Carl Wieman was awarded the Oersted Medal, which recognizes notable contributions to the teaching of physics, by the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Carl Wieman is the founder and chairman of PhET, a web-based directive of University of Colorado Boulder which provides an extensive suite of simulations to improve the way that physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math are taught and learned.

Carl Wieman is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board.

Carl Wieman was nominated to be The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy Associate Director of Science on March 24,2010.

Carl Wieman's hearing in front of the Commerce committee occurred on May 20,2010, and he was passed by unanimous consent.

On September 16,2010, Dr Carl Wieman was confirmed by unanimous consent.

Carl Wieman left that post in June 2012 to battle multiple myeloma.