On October 4, 2022, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Hans Ellegren, Eva Olsson and Thors Hans Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics, announce the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. STOCKHOLM Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behavior of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on supercomputers and encrypted communication.
The awards were given for experiments with entangled photons, the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
The laureates Aspect is French, Clauser American and Zeilinger Austrian, which has allowed further research and possibly cleared the way for new practical technology, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
There is now a large field of research that includes quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication.
The prize, worth 10 million Swedish crowns $902,315, is being awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Nobel for Physics is the second to be awarded this week after Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
The prestigious prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were created in the will of Alfred Nobel, who made a fortune from his invention of dynamite, and have been awarded with some interruptions since 1901, primarily the two World War IIs.
In this April 21, 2004 file photo, Professor Anton Zeilinger from the University of Vienna, left, and Vienna Mayor Michael Haeupl smile at a press conference where the functioning of quantum cryptgraphy based on entangled light particles will be presented in Vienna's City Hall. HANS PUNZ AP The Physics Prize has often taken center stage among the awards, featuring household names of science such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, and rewarding breakthroughs that have reshaped how we see the world.
In the last year, scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi shared the physics prize for their work on complex physical systems such as Earth's changing climate, key to understanding global warming.
The physics prize announcement will be followed by awards for chemistry, literature, peace and economics, which were added to the original line-up in 1969.