Physics Nobel Prize in 2012:Measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

Professor Serge Haroche and Professor David J. Wineland have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. They have independently invented and developed ground-breaking experimental methods for measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature. Their work demonstrates very fundamental behaviour of quantum systems under full control, and underpins quantum technologies relevant to quantum information and atomic clocks.