David Wineland

David J. Wineland (2008)

David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner .

Wineland received his BA from the University of California in 1965 and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1970 under Norman Ramsey . He then worked with Hans Dehmelt at the University of Washington before moving to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder (Colorado) in 1975 , where he worked on frequency standards and ion traps . He is known for developing technologies for quantum computers with ion traps and at NIST, head of the Ion Storage Group .

In 1990 he received the Davisson-Germer Prize , in 1990 the William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America , in 1998 the II Rabi Award of the IEEE and in 2001 the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics . In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science . In 2010 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics together with Peter Zoller and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain . In 2009 he received the first Herbert Walther Prize . In 1986 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1992 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . For 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with the French Serge Haroche . In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• with Carl E. Wieman & David E. Pritchard : Atom cooling, trapping, and quantum manipulation . In: Reviews of Modern Physics . tape 71 , no. 2 , March 1999, p. S253-S262 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.71.S253 .

Web links

Commons : David J. Wineland  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2012 award ceremony for David Wineland and Serge Haroche

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Wineland. AIP, accessed on February 6, 2018 . 
2. ^ Benjamin Franklin Medal for Prof. Ignacio Cirac. Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, October 20, 2009, accessed on February 6, 2018 .