The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions of importance for the development of atomic precision spectroscopy
Hans Dehmelt University of Washington Seattle, USA
Wolfgang Paul Universität Bonn Federal Republic of Germany
Norman F. Ramsey Harvard University Cambridge, USA
for the development of the ion trap technique
for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks
