David J.

Wineland
David Jeffery Wineland[1] (born February 24,
1944)[2] is an American physicist at the Physical David J. Wineland
Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). His most notable
contributions include the laser cooling of trapped ions
and the use of ions for quantum-computing operations.
He received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly
with Serge Haroche, for "ground-breaking
experimental methods that enable measuring and
manipulation of individual quantum systems."[3][4]

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 Sacramento, California.[5]
Wineland graduated from Encina High School in
Wineland in 2013
Sacramento in 1961.[6] In Sept. 1961–Dec. 1963, he
Born David Jeffery Wineland
studied at University of California, Davis. He received
February 24, 1944
his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
California, Berkeley in 1965 and his master's and
United States
doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University.[5]
He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Alma mater University of California,
Foster Ramsey, Jr.[7] His doctoral dissertation is titled Berkeley
"The Atomic Deuterium Maser". He then performed Harvard University
postdoctoral research in Hans Dehmelt's group at the Known for Cavity quantum
University of Washington where he investigated electrodynamics
electrons in ion traps. In 1975, he joined the National Laser cooling
Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), where he Awards IRI Medal (2020)
started the ion storage group and is on the physics Nobel Prize in Physics
faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder. In (2012)
January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of National Medal of Science
Physics University of Oregon as a Knight Research (2007)
Professor,[8] while still being engaged with the Ion Schawlow Prize (2001)
Storage Group at NIST in a consulting role. Scientific career

Wineland was the first to laser-cool ions in 1978. His Fields Quantum physics
NIST group uses trapped ions in many experiments on Institutions University of Washington
fundamental physics, and quantum state control. They National Institute of
have demonstrated optical techniques to prepare Standards and Technology
ground, superposition and entangled states. This work University of Colorado,
has led to advances in spectroscopy, atomic clocks and Boulder
quantum information. In 1995 he created the first University of Oregon
single atom quantum logic gate and was the first to Thesis The Atomic Deuterium
quantum teleport information in massive particles in Maser (http://search.proque
2004.[9] Wineland implemented the most precise st.com/docview/30246281
atomic clock using quantum logic on a single 3) (1971)
aluminum ion in 2005.[10] Doctoral advisor Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society Other academic Hans Georg Dehmelt
and[11] the Optical Society of America, and was advisors
elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
1992.[12] He shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with French
physicist Serge Haroche "for ground-breaking experimental
methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual
quantum systems."[3]

Family
Wineland is married to Sedna Quimby-Wineland, and they have
two sons.[13]

Sedna Helen Quimby is the daughter of George I. Quimby (1913- Wineland in Stockholm, 2012

2003), an archaeologist and anthropologist, who was Professor of

Anthropology at the University of Washington and Director of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
State Museum, and his wife Helen Ziehm Quimby.[14]

Awards
1990 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America
1996 Einstein Prize for Laser Science of the Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics
(awarded at Lasers '96)
1998 Rabi Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Society[15]
2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science[16]
2003 Samuel Stratton Award
2004 Frederic Ives Medal
2007 National Medal of Science in the engineering sciences[17]
2009 Herbert Walther Award from the OSA[18]
2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, shared with Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
T. Washington Fellows
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Serge Haroche[3]
2014 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[19]
 2017 elected Honorary member of OSA[20]
2019 Micius Quantum Prize
2020 IRI Medal, established by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).[21]

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

See also

Biographies portal

Physics portal
United States
portal

Cat state
Doppler cooling
Resolved sideband cooling
Quantum supremacy
Quantum Zeno effect

References
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21. IRI Medal 2020 (https://www.iriweb.org/about/awards/)

External links
David J. Wineland (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/877) on Nobelprize.org

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