The Royal Swedish Academy has decided to honour Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger with Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics.
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Oct 4, 2022 15:38 IST
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger win Nobel Prize
The Royal Swedish Academy has decided to honour Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger with Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics.
They’ll be awarded the prize for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. pic.twitter.com/RI4CJv6JhZ— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)
October 4, 2022
Who is Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger?
- Alain Aspect was born on June 15, 1947. He is a French physicist, known for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
- Aspect is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan.
- John Francis Clauser was born on December 1, 1942. He is an American theoretical and experimental physicist.
- Clauser is known for his contributions to the foundations of Quantum mechanics in particular the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality.
- Anton Zeilinger was born on May 20, 1945. He is an Austrian quantum physicist.
- Zeilinger received the Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics for his conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics.
- Anton’s contribution has become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information.
