The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge HarocheCollège de France andEcole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and David J. WinelandNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) andUniversity of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.Particle control in a quantum worldSerge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles