PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 2022
Three physicists, frenchman Alain Aspect, american John Clauser and austrian Anton Zeilinger, have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for laying the foundation for the future of information.
Affiliated with the French University of Paris-Saclay and Polytechnique, Alain Aspect is 75, while John Clauser is 79 and Anton Zeilinger, of the University of Vienna, is 77.
The announcement was made in Stockholm by the secretariat of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. "The award, the citation explains, "was given for work on quantum mechanics, in particular for their experiments with photons on quantum correlation,” establishing the violation of Bell's inequality theorem and opening the way to quantum information science.
In fact, their experiments on the phenomenon called 'entanglement', a kind of long-distance embrace of particles, opened the way for powerful and very fast quantum computers, more precise measurements and hacker-proof cryptography.
The three researchers previously shared the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics awarded to them in 2010 "for their fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics"