Could we possibly have yet another in the long, long list of Jewish Nobel Prize winners? Wineland is a fairly common Jewish name.
I give this a 50/50 chance. There are many non-Jewish David Winelands in America living in rural areas of Texas and Pennsylvania where you don't find Jews. Probably he is Jewish but...
http://names.whitepages.com/David/Wineland Nobel Prize winner listed in Boulder Colorado
http://www.whitepages.com/name/David-Wineland/Colorado other David Winelands
lol...... The French dude is Jewish >>>
Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Wineland)
A Jewish scientist? Whoever heard of THAT!