Serge Haroche and David Wineland won Nobel Prize 2012 for Physics

Serge Haroche and David Wineland of France and US respectively, won the Nobel Physics Prize on 9 October 2012. They received Nobel for their work on quantum physics, which would open a gate for supercomputers in future. The two physics have developed the technology for examining   the intimate relationship between matter and light.

This research by the duo would help in development of precise clocks, which will be hundred-times precise than the caesium clocks of present-time.

The eight million Swedish Krona ($1.2 millions) would be divided in between the two and the award will be received by them on 10 December 2012 on the death ceremony of the Prize Founder, Alfred Nobel. The remaining prizes in Chemistry, Literature and Peace would be announced on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday respectively.