April 9, 2008

Video: "Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Physics to Teach Physics"

Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter talks about the future of science education.

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Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter talks about the future of science education.

The annual Guy and Rebecca Forman Lecture, “Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the tools of physics to teach physics,” took place April 7.

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