This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger (77). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced this on Tuesday. Zeilinger, together with the French physicist Alain Aspect and the American physicist John F. Clauser, is honored for, among other things, experiments with entangled photons. Just like last year, ten million Swedish crowns (almost 920,000 euros) will be awarded to the prize.
Among other things, the prize goes to the winners for groundbreaking work in the field of quantum information. The prize is awarded annually in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel.
Last year, half the prize went to two meteorologists, German Klaus Hasselmann and Japanese-born American researcher Syukuro Manabe (USA), and the other half went to Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi. The scientists were honored for their “pioneering contributions to the understanding of complex physical systems”. Hasselmann and Manabe received the prize “for physically modeling the Earth’s climate, quantitatively analyzing variations and reliably predicting global warming”, Parisi for “discovering how the interplay of disorder and fluctuation affects physical systems, from atomic to planetary level”.
Source: Krone

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