Quantum pioneers bag Wolf prize

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The 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller.

The 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Juan Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany, and Peter Zoller of Innsbruck University in Austria for “groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum-information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases”. The duo will share the $100,000 prize, which will be presented by the president of Israel at the Israeli parliament (Knesset) in May.

Read more at this physicsworld.com blog entry.