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Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics

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J. Ignacio Cirac, Ph.D. Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany
David J. Wineland, Ph.D. National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Colorado
Peter Zoller, Ph.D. University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences Innsbruck, Austria

Year: 2010

Subject: Physics

Award: Benjamin Franklin Medal

Citation: For their theoretical proposal and experimental realization of the first device that performs elementary computer-logic operations using the quantum properties of individual atoms.