The winners of the 2012 Nobel prizes are being announced this week. So each day, we’ll be looking to see what Nobel-related content we have in Europeana.
Today, we congratulate France’s Serge Haroche and the USA’s David Wineland for winning the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in quantum optics – the precise control of photons, the fundamental units of light.
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Some Nobel Physics facts for you…
The award is for ‘the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics’.
It has been awarded 105 times since 1901.
The average age of a Nobel Prize for Physics winner is 54.
The youngest winner was 25-year-old Lawrence Bragg in 1915, and the oldest was 88-year-old Raymond Davis Jnr in 2002.
The Prize has only ever been awarded to two women, Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963.
