David J. Wineland

David Jeffrey Wineland[1] (born February 24, 1944)[2] 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".[3][4]

David J. Wineland
David J. Wineland in 2008
Born	David Jeffrey Wineland (1944-02-24) February 24, 1944 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (2012) National Medal of Science (2007) Schawlow Prize (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Quantum physics
Institutions	University of Washington National Institute of Standards and Technology University of Colorado, Boulder University of Oregon
Thesis	The Atomic Deuterium Maser (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Other academic advisors	Hans Georg Dehmelt

Wineland in Stockholm, 2012

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 Sacramento in 1961.[1] 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.[6] 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. In January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of Physics University of Oregon as a Knight Research Professor [7], 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.[8] Wineland implemented the most precise atomic clock using quantum logic on a single aluminum ion in 2005.[9]

Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society and[10] the American Optical Society, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.[11] 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.[12]

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.[13]

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[14]
• 2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science[15]
• 2003 Samuel Stratton Award
• 2007 National Medal of Science in the engineering sciences[16]
• 2009 Herbert Walther Award from the OSA[17]
• 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, shared with Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller
• Frederic Ives Medal
• T. Washington Fellows
• 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Serge Haroche[3]
• 2014 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[18]

Appearances

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

References

1. Class of 1961 Graduation List. encinahighschool.com
2. "David Wineland". Array of Contemporary American Physicists. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
3. "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. NIST, US Department of Commerce (October 9, 2012). "NIST's David J. Wineland Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics". www.nist.gov. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
6. 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.
7. Thornberry, Max. "Nobel Prize winner set to join UO faculty". The Daily Emerald. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. "Quantum Wizardry Wins Nobel Recognition". www.aps.org. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
11. "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
12. "David J. Wineland PhD". Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
13. George Quimby, 89, gave Burke museum NW flavor, Seattle Times, 2 March 2003, accessed 28 February 2013
14. "Rabi Award". IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
15. "Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science". American Physical Society. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
16. "NIST Physicist David J. Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science (NIST press release)". NIST. August 25, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
17. "Herbert Walther Award". OSA. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
18. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.

Awards
Preceded by Saul Perlmutter Adam G. Riess Brian P. Schmidt	Nobel Prize in Physics laureate 2012 With: Serge Haroche	Succeeded by François Englert Peter Higgs