Congratulations to David Wineland! 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics

The following press release was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Oct. 9, 2012. It is reproduced in full below.

We are thrilled at the news that NIST's David Wineland has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Professor Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Wineland was cited by the Nobel committee "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."

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Read the Nobel citation at: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/press.html

Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology