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Nobel Prize for quantum pair

STOCKHOLM: Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics after a breakthrough that could make it possible to build a computer far more powerful than any seen before.

Serge Haroche of France and American David Wineland, both 68, found ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them.

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