Physicist At The National Institute of Standards and Technology David Wineland Wins Nobel Prize In Physics
BOULDER, CO – OCTOBER 9: David J. Wineland (2L), a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is toasted by Tom O’Brian (L), Chief of NIST Time and Frequency Division, at an employee reception in the lobby of NIST on October 9th 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. Wineland has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.” Wineland has worked at NIST for 37 years and is internationally recognized for his research on trapped ions. (Photo by Dana Romanoff/Getty Images)