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David J. Wineland

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David J. Wineland
Wineland in 2013
Born
David Jeffery Wineland

(1944-02-24) February 24, 1944 (age 80)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Known forCavity quantum electrodynamics
Laser cooling
AwardsIRI Medal (2020)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2012)
National Medal of Science (2007)
Schawlow Prize (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
National Institute of Standards and Technology
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Oregon
ThesisThe Atomic Deuterium Maser (1971)
Doctoral advisorNorman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Other academic advisorsHans Georg Dehmelt
Wineland in Stockholm, 2012

David Jeffery Wineland[1] (born February 24, 1944)[2] is an American physicist at the Physical 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

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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 Sacramento in 1961.[6] In Sept. 1961–Dec. 1963, he studied at University of California, Davis. 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.[5] He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.[7] His doctoral dissertation is titled "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. In January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of Physics University of Oregon as a Knight Research Professor,[8] 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, 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.[9] Wineland implemented the most precise atomic clock using quantum logic on a single aluminum ion in 2005.[10]

Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society and[11] the Optical Society of America, and was 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

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

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.[14]

Awards

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Appearances

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "David Jeffery Wineland". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  2. ^ "David Wineland". Array of Contemporary American Physicists. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Press release – Particle control in a quantum world". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  4. ^ Phillips, William Daniel (2013). "Profile of David Wineland and Serge Haroche, 2012 Nobel Laureates in Physics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (18): 7110–1. Bibcode:2013PNAS..110.7110P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1221825110. PMC 3645510. PMID 23584018.
  5. ^ a b NIST, US Department of Commerce (October 9, 2012). "NIST's David J. Wineland Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics". NIST. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  6. ^ Class of 1961 Graduation List. encinahighschool.com
  7. ^ Wineland, D. J.; Ramsey, N. F. (1972). "Atomic Deuterium Maser". Physical Review A. 5 (2): 821. Bibcode:1972PhRvA...5..821W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.5.821.
  8. ^ Thornberry, Max. "Nobel Prize winner set to join UO faculty". The Daily Emerald. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  9. ^ Wineland, David J. (July 12, 2013). "Nobel Lecture: Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schro¨dinger's cat*" (PDF). Rev Mod Phys. 85 (3): 1103–1114. Bibcode:2013RvMP...85.1103W. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1103.
  10. ^ Schmidt, P. O.; Rosenband, T.; Langer, C.; Itano, W. M.; Bergquist, J. C.; Wineland, D. J. (July 29, 2005). "Spectroscopy Using Quantum Logic" (PDF). Science. 309 (5735): 749–52. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..749S. doi:10.1126/science.1114375. PMID 16051790. S2CID 4835431.
  11. ^ "Quantum Wizardry Wins Nobel Recognition". www.aps.org. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  12. ^ "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  13. ^ "David J. Wineland PhD". Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  14. ^ George Quimby, 89, gave Burke museum NW flavor, Seattle Times, 2 March 2003, accessed 28 February 2013
  15. ^ "Rabi Award". IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  16. ^ "Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science". American Physical Society. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  17. ^ "NIST Physicist David J. Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science (NIST press release)". NIST. August 25, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  18. ^ "Herbert Walther Award". OSA. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  19. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  20. ^ "David J. Wineland and Amnon Yariv Named 2017 Honorary Members of The Optical Society | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  21. ^ IRI Medal 2020
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