Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 goes to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

The week, as always full of suspense, of the Nobel Prizes continues today. This morning, in fact, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Karolinska Institutet have just awarded the coveted prize for physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for “” for experiments with entangled photons, which establish the violation of Bell’s inequalities and pave the way for quantum information science “.

After yesterday’s announcement, in which the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded to Svante Pääbo, and today’s one for physicstomorrow will be the turn of the prestigious award for the chemistryThursday for the literatureFriday for the peace and, finally, next Monday, for theeconomy.

Last year, Syukuro Manabe, Klauss Hasselmann and the Italian Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize was awarded jointly to the first two researchers for the “Modeling of the earth’s climate, for having reliably quantified and predicted global warming”. The other half, however, went to Giorgio Parisi for his research, fundamental contributions to the theory of complex systems. In particular, “For the discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale”so the academy had expressed itself.