1944 - Today
David Jeffrey 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 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). David J. Wineland is the 249th most popular physicist (up from 328th in 2019), the 1,190th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,950th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, David J. Wineland ranks 249 out of 717. Before him are Klaus Hasselmann, Julian Schwinger, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Gustaf Dalén, Georg Bednorz, and John B. Goodenough. After him are Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, Serge Haroche, Joseph Plateau, Gérard Mourou, and Klaus Fuchs.
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 243
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 244
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 245
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 246
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 247
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 248
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 249
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 250
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 251
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 252
1801 - 1883
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 253
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 254
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 255
Among people born in 1944, David J. Wineland ranks 68. Before him are Jonathan Demme, Bora Milutinović, Norodom Ranariddh, Udo Kier, Peter Weir, and Maria João Pires. After him are Bernard Cornwell, Nelson Freire, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Günter Netzer, and Klaus Nomi.
1944 - 2017
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 62
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 63
1944 - 2021
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 64
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 65
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 66
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 67
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 68
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 69
1944 - 2021
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 70
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 71
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 72
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 73
1944 - 1983
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 74
Among people born in United States, David J. Wineland ranks 1,190 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert S. Mulliken (1896), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Scott Wilson (1942), Frank Sheeran (1920), Dennis Quaid (1954), and Wallace Carothers (1896). After him are George Benson (1943), Etta James (1938), Joe Satriani (1956), Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), Andrew Garfield (1983), and Morgan Fairchild (1950).
1896 - 1986
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 1,184
1900 - 1948
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 1,185
1942 - 2018
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 1,186
1920 - 2003
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 1,187
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 1,188
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 1,189
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 1,190
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 1,191
1938 - 2012
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 1,192
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 1,193
1933 - 1995
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 1,194
1983 - Present
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 1,195
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 1,196
Among physicists born in United States, David J. Wineland ranks 51. Before him are John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Burton Richter (1931), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), David Bohm (1992), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Douglas Osheroff (1945), and George Smoot (1945).
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 45
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 46
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 47
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 48
1992 - 1992
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 49
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 50
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 51
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 52
1923 - 2020
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 53
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 54
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 55
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 56
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 57