Nobel Prize in Physics 2012

Serge Haroche

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Prize share: 1/2

David J. Wineland

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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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