Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
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Serge Haroche
Prize share: 1/2
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan
David J. Wineland
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"
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