Dr. David Wineland and the human side of winning the Nobel Prize
May 1, 2013
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Dr. David Wineland (photo courtesy of NIST)
Today on How On Earth, KGNU’s award-winning science show, we continue our discussion with Boulder’s Dr. David Wineland about the human side of winning the Nobel Prize. The National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist shared the 2012 physics award with France’s Serge Haroche. They’ve developed experimental methods for trapping and holding particles so that weird quantum behaviors can be studied. The research is critical to developing extreme quantum computers that may someday break today’s best encryption algorithms…and make truly unbreakable ones.
Host: Jim Pullen Producer: Jim Pullen Executive Producer: Joel Parker
