(2012) David Wineland
David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel Prize awarded physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling of ions in Paul traps and use of trapped ions to implement quantum computing operations. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics, jointly with Serge Haroche, for \"ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.\" Wineland graduated from Encina High School in Sacramento, California in 1961. He received his bachelor\'s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and his PhD in 1970 supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. at Harvard University. Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Optical Society, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. 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.\"
