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“I feel like I got a lot smarter overnight.” —DAVE WINELAND, 2012 Nobel Prize recipient in Physics
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hat was well-known freeflighter Dave Wineland’s reaction when he learned that he, along with a French physicist, had been named as a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. A member of the very active Mag- nificent Mountain Men freeflight club in Colorado, Dave is best known to the freeflight community for his meticulously- prepared, beautifully-constructed, and ex- cellent flying airplanes—everything from FAI, to AMA, to Nostalgia power models. Underneath his easy-going, very self-dep- recating demeanor, however, is one of the world’s leading scientists, now recognized for his work by being awarded the world’s most prestigious prize in scientific discovery and development. In real life, Harvard grad- uate, Dr. Dave Wineland, is a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Nation- al Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) affiliated with the University of Col- orado at Boulder.
He is internationally recognized for his re- search on trapped ions, and according to a press release from NIST, “conducted land- mark experiments on laser cooling, which involves the use of lasers to cool ions to near absolute zero. This led to the development of laser-cooled atomic clocks, the current state- of-the-art clock in time and frequency stan- dards; advances in experimental quantum
computing...and ultra-precise next-genera- tion atomic clocks based on single ions.” Dave is also not a stranger to awards in addition to the Nobel Prize. In the recent past he has won the 2007 National Medal of Science; the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics; the Society of Optical and Quan-
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PHOTO: JERRY MURPHY
Prize winner in Physics, Dr. Dave Wineland, is one of the stalwart members of Colorado’s Magnificent Mountain Men freeflight club. Dave’s world-class accomplishments are touched upon in the text.
tum Electronics’ Einstein Medal for Laser Science; the American Physical Society’s Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science; the International Award on Quantum Com- munication; and the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Executives and Professionals. He has also helped train a new generation of scientists through his teaching, and had published more than 250 refereed articles, many of which have ap- peared in the most prestigious research journals throughout the world.
Congratulations from all of the freeflight community, Dave! We could not be more proud of you and your unparalleled accom- plishments.
2012 Nats DVD
Alan Abriss’ release of his annual Free Flight Nats coverage on DVD has become a much-anticipated punctuation point to each competition season. For those who were there, it is a collection of memories that can be replayed throughout the year in anticipa-
PHOTO: ALAN ABRISS
Alan Abriss now has his newest AMA Nats coverage DVD (above left) available for those who want an enjoyable look at this year’s doings at Muncie. Alan covers in a day-by-day fashion all of the activities and types of models that were flown, and interviews the flyers about their planes. Ninety-one-year-old
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PHOTO: TOM HALLMAN
Donald Hallman (above right) shares the joy of his son Tom’s freeflight accomplishments and proudly holds Tom’s newly finished Pulqui for FAC Rubber Scale. Tom’s “Geneseo Journal-2012” is a must read with the on-line address in the text.
DECEMBER 2012
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