Nationality American Fields Physics | Name David Wineland | |
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Institutions National Institute of Standards and TechnologyUniversity of Colorado, Boulder Alma mater University of California, BerkeleyHarvard UniversityUniversity of Washington Thesis The Atomic Deuterium Maser (1971) Awards Nobel Prize in Physics, Benjamin Franklin Medal, National Medal of Science for Engineering, Frederic Ives Medal Notable awards Similar People Serge Haroche, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Claude Cohen‑Tannoudji, Norman Foster Ramsey, Wolfgang Paul | ||
Doctoral advisor Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. Other academic advisors Hans Georg Dehmelt | ||
Superposition entanglement and raising schroedinger s cat david j wineland
David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics 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 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Serge Haroche, for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
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- Superposition entanglement and raising schroedinger s cat david j wineland
- David j wineland exclusive interview the 2012 nobel physics laureate
- Early life and career
- Family
- Awards
- Appearances
- References
David j wineland exclusive interview the 2012 nobel physics laureate
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. Wineland graduated from Encina High School in Sacramento in 1961. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University. He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. His doctoral dissertation is entitled "The Atomic Deuterium Maser". He then performed postdoctoral research in Hans Dehmelt's group at the University of Washington where he investigated electrons in ion traps. In 1975, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), where he started the ion storage group and is on the physics faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He continues to work at NIST laboratories.
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, atomic clocks 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 National Academy of Sciences in 1992. 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."
In the fall of 2017, Wineland will join the University of Oregon Department of Physics as a Knight Research Professor.
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 University of Washington and Director of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, and his wife Helen Ziehm Quimby.
Awards
Appearances
Wineland was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.