David J. Wineland
DAVID J. WINELAND received a bachelor’s degree from Berkeley in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Washington, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), where he is the leader of the Ion-Storage Group in the Time and Frequency Division of NIST at Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Wineland and Hans Dehmelt were the first to propose using lasers to cool trapped atomic ions, and in 1978, he and coworkers conducted the seminal experiment realizing this effect. From these early achievements he has risen in stature to become one of the world's top scientists in the fields of laser cooling and spectroscopy of trapped atomic ions, atomic clocks, quantum information processing, quantum-limited metrology, and quantum state control. Dr Wineland has been published 9 times in Nature and 9 times in Science, and has won numerous prizes and awards, including the 1990 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, the 1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America, the 1996 Einstein Medal for Laser Science of the Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics, 1998 I. I. Rabi Award of the IEEE, the 2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society, the 2004 Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America, and the Department of Commerce Silver and Gold Medals. He is a Fellow of NIST, a Fellow of the APS, a Fellow of the American Optical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.