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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk. I'm Steve

Murski. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is about interaction between light and matter.

Physics Nobel Committee member Lars Berkstrom made the announcement just after 5.45 a.m. Eastern Time.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to board the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics to Zerge Arroche at

Collège de France and the Colormal Superiors, Paris, France, and David J. Vineland at National

Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

And the Academy Citation runs for groundbreaking experimental methods

that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

The work has enabled the entire field to experimentally examine quantum states,

the weird behavior of matter on subatomic scales,

that were formerly only open to analysis theoretically.

The most obvious applications of the measurement and manipulation of quantum systems

are atomic clocks of unprecedented accuracy

and the eventual advent of quantum computers.

Just after the announcement,

physics Nobel committee member Pierre Del Singh explained to a reporter

that this work enables researchers

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