Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Austria’s Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
Their discoveries have significant applications, for example, in the field of encryption.
Its predictions have opened doors to another world, and it has also shaken the very foundations of how we interpret measurements.”
They continue with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on October 10.