Minimize Your Mistakes by Learning from Those of Others

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA

Carl Wieman is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been teaching undergraduate physics for nearly 30 years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 and the NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar award the same year He was named Carnegie/CASE National Professor of the Year for 2004.