David Jeffery Wineland[1] (born February 24, 1944)[2] is an American physicist at the Physical Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

He received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Serge Haroche, for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

In 1975, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), where he started the ion storage group and is on the physics faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of Physics University of Oregon as a Knight Research Professor,[8] while still being engaged with the Ion Storage Group at NIST in a consulting role.

[12] 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.