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During 37 years at NIST, Wineland has made a number of major contributions to the field of physics.
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Dr Wineland has, however, built a working clock with his atoms and it is the most accurate clock in history.
ECONOMIST: The 2012 Nobel prizes
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Dr Haroche and Dr Wineland led independent teams which, beginning in the 1980s, devised ways to measure and manipulate particles while preserving superposition.
ECONOMIST: The 2012 Nobel prizes
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Holdren called Wineland at his office in Boulder, Colo.
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Dr Wineland, meanwhile, did the opposite.
ECONOMIST: The 2012 Nobel prizes
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Dr Wineland worked on atoms.
ECONOMIST: The 2012 Nobel prizes
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On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, and on Tuesday the prize for physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US for their work in querying single light and matter particles.
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