1.07pm BST

Here is Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics, speaking to Guardian science correspondent, Ian Sample, a few moments ago about the work of David Wineland and Serge Haroche. He was talking on a cellphone from the garden at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor, so the audio quality is a little poor.

Some highlights from Prof Knight's interview are below. He said the two scientists had made “quite spectacular progress over the last decade or so, where you can start to really control systems at the quantum level, manipulate them and move them around in a way that is unimaginable when they first started.

On the potential applications of Haroche and Wineland's work:

Quantum computing is still quite a long way away from large scale quantum device, but both of these groups have indicated the necessary ingredients that would make a logic circuit obey the laws of quantum mechanics and that’s what we really want to be able to do. We want to be able to manipulate these things, to swap the information to and fro, and what these two Nobel prize winners have done in their very different labs is show how you can do that.

On no prize for the Higgs discovery by Cern: