Nobel Prize winner Zeilinger: “This is something very special”

He visited Krausz when he still had his laboratory at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) and even then “had the feeling that this was something very special,” the quantum physicist told the APA on Tuesday.

Zeilinger did not want to comment on the fact that a second Austrian has received the Nobel Prize in Physics within a year, pointing out that “it is not about the country. The Nobel Prize Committee is not concerned about the country either, but only about the achievement.” What is clear to Zeilinger, however, is that both Krausz and he “completed our school education and career at a time when it was not as schooled and bureaucratized as it is today.” That’s why “the question is whether that would still be possible today.”

Zeilinger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 together with the French physicist Alain Aspect and his US colleague John Clauser. They received the prize “for experiments with entangled photons, proof of the violation of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”

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