The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to French scientist Alain Aspect, American scientist John Clauser, and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger.
“Quantum information science is a vibrant and rapidly developing field. It has broad and potential implications in areas such as secure information transfer, quantum computing and sensing technology.”
– Eva Olsson, Member of the Nobel Committee.
The three scientists performed experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
Their research provides the foundations for many practical applications of science, for example, in the field of encryption.
Arguably the most prestigious award in the scientific world, the Nobel Prize in physics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($915,000).
