Nobel Prize for Physics 2012

Tuesday 11 December 2012

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

      

   The winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics from this year were awarded yesterday in a ceremony held in Stockholm, Sweden.
 

     The french Serge Haroche, from the Collège de France, and the american David J. Wineland, from the University of Colorado, both with 68 years old, received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work with "innovative experimental methods that allow the measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
 

  They developed ways of measuring quantum particles (tiny scale) without destroying them, something that previously seemed unreachable. The announcement was made in October by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

                                                        

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