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BOULDER, Colo.—President Barack Obama is nominating a Nobel Prize winner with ties to the University of Colorado for a position in his administration.
Obama nominated Carl Wieman to be the associate director for science for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress must approve the nomination.
The physics professor divides his time between the University of British Columbia and the University of Colorado and directs collaborative science education initiatives.
Wieman shared the Nobel Prize in 2001 for the creation of a form of matter that occurs at temperatures near absolute zero.
