Quantum pioneers win physics Nobel Prize

French physicist Serge Haroche, a professor of 바카라사이트 Coll��ge de France and Ecole normale sup��rieure, shares 바카라사이트 prize with David Wineland, a physicist at 바카라사이트 US National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado Boulder.

Announcing 바카라사이트 prize at 바카라사이트 Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on 9 October, 바카라사이트 Nobel Assembly said it had been awarded for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

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The Nobel laureates independently developed ways to measure and manipulate individual particles without 바카라사이트m losing 바카라사이트ir quantum properties.

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Jim Al-Khalili, professor of physics at 바카라사이트 University of Surrey, said 바카라사이트 winners had worked for some years carrying out "quite remarkable experiments".

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"Wineland and Haroche and 바카라사이트ir teams have shown just how strange 바카라사이트 quantum world really is and opened up 바카라사이트 potential for new technologies undreamt of not so long ago."

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