February 9, 2007
A Top Physicist Turns to Teaching
U. of British Columbia recruits a Nobel Prize winner to remake its undergraduate science curriculum
On an upper shelf in Carl E. Wieman's campus office here are a dozen framed awards representing the highest honors in his field, crowned by the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. Yet despite his prominence, Mr. Wieman is not guiding the research of admiring young scientists. In fact, he has not done a physics experiment himself for months.
Having reached the pinnacle of his field, he
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