David J. Wineland

Jeffrey David Wineland ( born February 24, 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate.

Wineland received the BA in 1965 from the University of California and received his doctorate in 1970 with Norman Ramsey at Harvard University. After that, he was with Hans Dehmelt at the University of Washington before 1975 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ) in Boulder (Colorado) went where he deals with frequency standards and ion traps. He is known for the development of technologies for quantum computers with ion traps and the Head of the NIST Ion Storage Group.

In 1990 he was awarded the Davisson -Germer Prize, the 1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America, 1998 II Rabi Award from the IEEE in 2001 and the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser - Physics. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science. In 2010 he received together with Peter Zoller and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics. In 2009 he received the first Herbert Walther Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly with the Frenchman Serge Haroche. In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

  • Carl E. Wieman with & David E. Pritchard: Atom cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation. In: Reviews of Modern Physics. 71, No. 2, 1999, pp. S253 - S262, doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S253.
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