David P. DeMille is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.
[2] His group was the first to accomplish laser cooling of a diatomic molecule, achieved in 2010 using strontium monofluoride (SrF).
[3][4] He is also known for his precise measurements in the ACME EDM Experiment[5] which constrain the upper limit of the electron electric dipole moment using a beam of thorium monoxide, conducted in collaboration with the groups of Gerald Gabrielse and John Doyle at Harvard.
[6] DeMille is currently also leading the CeNTREX collaboration, an experiment to measure the nuclear Schiff moment of the thallium nucleus inside a thallium fluoride molecule.
[7] He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005,[8] and was awarded the 2024 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries of the APS.