CARL WIEMAN: "There was a greatdeal of careful datacollectedshowing how identical the two sections, thesetwo large sections of the class were beforehand."
Those events this year included visits with OSTP Associate Director for Science Carl Wieman a noted STEM education researcher and Nobel laureate, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh, and Members of Congress.
Actually creating such condensates fell to Eric Cornell and CarlWieman, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who made one out of rubidium atoms, and Wolfgang Ketterle, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who did the same with sodium.