This year's Physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers for discoveries way back in the 1980s that paved the way to quantum computing

Inside the Quantum Lab, a low camera shot 12mm--a 3D render of a chandelier-style quantum computer hanging from the ceiling in a room covered in metal vents for airflow.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their path-finding work in the field of quantum mechanics. It's been a long time coming—three whole decades, in fact—but that's seemingly how long it took to recognize that work was pivotal to the development of a whole lot of technology since the 1980s. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the news in Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor John Clarke, Professor Michel H. Devoret and Professor John M. Martinis are the new Nobel laureates. Clarke is from the UK and now works at the University of California in Berkeley; Devoret is from Paris, France and works at Yale; Martinis is American and works at the University of California, Santa Barbara.