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