The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 Haroche, David J. Wineland (France and USA)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ^ | 9 oct 2012 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

[AdmSmith]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to

Serge Haroche Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

and

David J. Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA

"for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"

Particle control in a quantum world

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously thought unattainable.

[AdmSmith]

Technical description at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/advanced-physicsprize2012.pdf

[ConservativeDude]

if they weren’t racists, they’d have given obama one of these, also

[AdmSmith]

This is the real prize, so not the slightest possibility.

[AdmSmith]

A good description, 6 pages pdf: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/popular-physicsprize2012.pdf

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks AdmSmith.

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[samtheman]

Perhaps the quantum computer will change our everyday lives in this century in the same radical way as the classical computer did in the last century.

Perhaps.

[samtheman]

He did invent the choom effect.

[nuconvert]

Thanks.

[Young Werther]

Was Sheldon in the running?

[AdmSmith]

Yes, 1979 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Glashow

[AdmSmith]

Perhaps the quantum computer will change our everyday lives in this century in the same radical way as the classical computer did in the last century.

That would probably not be so nice as we would not be able to have secure transfer of money, except with one-time-pads.

[Blennos]

Could we possibly have yet another in the long, long list of Jewish Nobel Prize winners? Wineland is a fairly common Jewish name.

[dennisw]

Could we possibly have yet another in the long, long list of Jewish Nobel Prize winners? Wineland is a fairly common Jewish name.

I give this a 50/50 chance. There are many non-Jewish David Winelands in America living in rural areas of Texas and Pennsylvania where you don't find Jews. Probably he is Jewish but...

http://names.whitepages.com/David/Wineland     Nobel Prize winner listed in Boulder Colorado

http://www.whitepages.com/name/David-Wineland/Colorado     other David Winelands

 

[dennisw]

lol...... The French dude is Jewish >>>

Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Wineland)

[dennisw]

He did invent the choom effect.

Isn't that where you and your moron friends (in Hawaii) close the windows of an old VW bus. Toke up a lot of pot. Then when the pot is gone you all raise your mouths close to the VW ceiling as possible and suck down the smoke up there. Definitely took some physics smarts, that heat rises

[Blennos]

Now that’s funny. So we have one and possibly two to add to the list. What is it about Jews and Physics (and chemistry and medicine and music and etc etc )?

[ConservativeDude]

A Jewish scientist? Whoever heard of THAT!

[Young Werther]

Not him but Sheldon Cooper!

[Vide]

La Griffe du Lion addressed this in 2003. If you remember any high-school stats, give the piece a read.

[dennisw]

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