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New Delhi: On the centennial anniversary of the discovery of quantum mechanics, that most of the modern technology relies on, including smartphones, computers and undersea cables, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists who demonstrated that the weird effects on quantum scales actually also extends to the everyday objects that humans can see and touch. The prize has been split three ways between John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis, who demonstrated quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in electrical circuits, through experiments conducted in the 1980s.