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  • NIST physicist David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an 鈥渋on trap.鈥 These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. Such computers, by relying on quantum mechanics rather than transistors to perform calculations or store information, could someday solve problems in seconds that would take months on today鈥檚 best supercomputers. Photo by Geoffrey Wheeler/NIST.
    NIST physicist, CU-Boulder lecturer wins Nobel
    David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the University of Colorado Boulder physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and internationally recognized
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  • John Wahr
    Physicist elected to National Academy of Sciences
    University of Colorado Boulder Professor John Wahr of the physics department has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in
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