The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions of importance for the development of atomic precision spectroscopy

Hans Dehmelt University of Washington Seattle, USA	Wolfgang Paul Universität Bonn Federal Republic of Germany	Norman F. Ramsey Harvard University Cambridge, USA
for the development of the ion trap technique		for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks

Contents:
Introduction » Precision measurements using atomic beams and ion traps » The traps of Paul and Dehmelt » Ramsey and the atomic clocks » Some precision data obtained by ion traps and atomic beams » Further Reading »
Based on materials from the 1989 Nobel Poster for Physics. Credits and references for the poster »

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