David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the

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laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum-computing operations. He was awarded the 2012

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, jointly with

Serge Haroche Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French-Moroccan physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual ...

, for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

Early life and career

Wineland was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He lived in Denver until he was three years old, at which time his family moved to

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. Wineland graduated from Encina High School in Sacramento in 1961.Class of 1961 Graduation List
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. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the

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in 1965 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from

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. He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. His doctoral dissertation is titled "The Atomic Deuterium Maser". He then performed postdoctoral research in Hans Dehmelt's group at the

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where he investigated electrons in

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s. In 1975, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now called

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), where he started the ion storage group and is on the physics faculty of the

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. In January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of Physics

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as a Knight Research Professor, while still being engaged with the Ion Storage Group at NIST in a consulting role. Wineland was the first to laser-cool ions in 1978. His NIST group uses trapped ions in many experiments on fundamental physics, and quantum state control. They have demonstrated optical techniques to prepare ground, superposition and entangled states. This work has led to advances in spectroscopy,

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s and quantum information. In 1995 he created the first single atom quantum logic gate and was the first to quantum teleport information in massive particles in 2004. Wineland implemented the most precise atomic clock using quantum logic on a single aluminum ion in 2005. Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Optical Society, and was elected to the

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in 1992. He shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with

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"for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."

Family

Wineland is married to Sedna Quimby-Wineland, and they have two sons. Sedna Helen Quimby is the daughter of George I. Quimby (1913-2003), an archaeologist and anthropologist, who was Professor of Anthropology at the

and Director of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, and his wife Helen Ziehm Quimby.

Awards

* 1990 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics * 1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America * 1996

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of the Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics (awarded at ''Lasers'' '96) * 1998 Rabi Award from the

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* 2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science * 2003 Samuel Stratton Award * 2007

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in the engineering sciences * 2009 Herbert Walther Award from the

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* 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, shared with

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and

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* Frederic Ives Medal * T. Washington Fellows * 2012

, shared with

* 2014 Golden Plate Award of the

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* 2019

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* 2020 IRI Medal, established by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).IRI Medal 2020
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Appearances

Wineland was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.

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