Two physicists who developed techniques to study the interplay between light and matter on the smallest and most intimate imaginable scale won the Nobel prize in physics Tuesday.
Stories Related to French And U.s. Scientists Win Nobel Physics Prize
By DENNIS OVERBYE, New York Times
Tue, 10/09/2012 - 8:37am
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