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.
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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.