Nobel Prize 2005!

Hey, optics fans... Congrats to Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch, the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics!

Roy Glauber was awarded half the prize for "his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence" and John Hall and Theodor Hänsch were each awarded a quarter for "their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique".

Read the press release here or a more advanced (interesting) document (pdf) on the laureates work.

(above pic comes from nobelprize.org)