David J. Wineland
E166924
David J. Wineland is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of ions, which has advanced precision measurements and quantum information science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David J. Wineland canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1470268 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David J. Wineland Context triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, David J. Wineland]
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A.
Norman Ramsey
Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
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B.
Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work on Bose–Einstein condensates and ultracold atomic gases.
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C.
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche is a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
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D.
Eric A. Cornell
Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
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E.
Roy Glauber
Roy Glauber was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and the quantum theory of optical coherence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David J. Wineland Target entity description: David J. Wineland is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of ions, which has advanced precision measurements and quantum information science.
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A.
Norman Ramsey
Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
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B.
Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work on Bose–Einstein condensates and ultracold atomic gases.
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C.
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche is a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
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D.
Eric A. Cornell
Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
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E.
Roy Glauber
Roy Glauber was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and the quantum theory of optical coherence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
ⓘ
surface form:
APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
Franklin Medal ⓘ
surface form:
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics ⓘ I. I. Rabi Prize ⓘ
surface form:
I. I. Rabi Award
NIST Samuel Wesley Stratton Award ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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University of Colorado Boulder ⓘ University of Oregon ⓘ |
| familyName | Wineland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
atomic physics
ⓘ
physics ⓘ precision measurement ⓘ quantum information science ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
ion trapping
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laser cooling ⓘ quantum information processing ⓘ quantum metrology ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of optical atomic clocks
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development of quantum computing with trapped ions ⓘ precision timekeeping standards ⓘ |
| knownFor |
laser cooling of ions
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precision spectroscopy with trapped ions ⓘ quantum information processing with trapped ions ⓘ quantum state control of trapped ions ⓘ trapping of ions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
American Physical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of ion-trap based optical clocks
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development of laser cooling techniques for trapped ions ⓘ experiments on decoherence in trapped-ion systems ⓘ experiments on quantum superposition in trapped ions ⓘ implementation of quantum logic operations with trapped ions ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boulder, Colorado
ⓘ
Eugene, Oregon ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David J. Wineland Description of subject: David J. Wineland is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of ions, which has advanced precision measurements and quantum information science.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Serge Haroche