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David J. Wineland

1944 - Today

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David Jeffery Wineland(born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Physical Measurement Laboratory). His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum-computing operations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David J. Wineland has received more than 229,044 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). David J. Wineland is the 203rd most popular physicist (up from 249th in 2019), the 778th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,190th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David J. Winelands by language

Over the past year David J. Wineland has had the most page views in the with 20,731 views, followed by Chinese (4,472), and German (2,529). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (210.83%), Malagasy (87.77%), and Czech (78.67%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David J. Wineland ranks 203 out of 851. Before him are Steven Weinberg, Ilya Frank, Anton Zeilinger, Pyotr Kapitsa, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and Michio Kaku. After him are Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Robert Hofstadter, Richard E. Taylor, and James Cronin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, David J. Wineland ranks 53. Before him are Abdul Latif Rashid, Nick Mason, Gennady Zyuganov, Kunishige Kamamoto, Sylvie Vartan, and Omar al-Bashir. After him are Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Cevert, Maria João Pires, Rudy Giuliani, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David J. Wineland ranks 778 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlie Sheen (1965), Greg Abbott (1957), Stan Kroenke (1947), James E. Webb (1906), Jules Dassin (1911), and Robert Burns Woodward (1917). After him are Jim Jones (1931), Brandon Lee (1965), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Robert Hofstadter (1915), and Robert McNamara (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, David J. Wineland ranks 34. Before him are Benjamin Thompson (1753), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Douglas Osheroff (1945), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), Steven Weinberg (1933), and Michio Kaku (1947). After him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Robert Hofstadter (1915), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Arthur Ashkin (1922), and Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930).

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