David J. Wineland

David J. Wineland
David J. Wineland in 2008
Born	David Jeffrey Wineland (1944-02-24) February 24, 1944 (age 73) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Quantum Physics
Institutions	National Institute of Standards and Technology University of Colorado, Boulder
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University University of Washington
Thesis	The Atomic Deuterium Maser (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Other academic advisors	Hans Georg Dehmelt
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (2012) National Medal of Science (2007) Schawlow Prize (2001)

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."

Wineland was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He lived in Denver for a short time 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 groups 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.