Great, You've Proved Quantum Superposition. Now Can We Have Transporters?

And the 2012 Nobel prize for Physics goes to Serge Haroche of France and American David Wineland. Their work now points the way to being able to measure quantum particles without destroying them.

"The Nobel laureates have opened the door to a new era of experimentation with quantum physics by demonstrating the direct observation of individual quantum particles without destroying them," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "Perhaps the quantum computer will change our everyday lives in this century in the same radical way as the classical computer did in the last century."

Now that these fine gentleman have discovered the means to make a particle exist in two places at the same time, perhaps they'll start working on quantum teleportation. A guy can hope, right?