A Nobel laureate from the University of Colorado at Boulder was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week to serve as a science and technology policy adviser to the White House.
Carl Wieman “is expected to spearhead the administration’s push to improve science education, drawing upon his pioneering work at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to strengthen the undergraduate training of science and math teachers,” the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported on its website.
Wieman shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 for creating Bose-Einstein condensate, a gaseous form of matter produced at absolute zero and helpful to the understanding of quantum physics.
He will be on leave from CU and the University of British Columbia while working in his federal government position.
