The Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to Messrs. Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger

Nobel Prize season continues and on Tuesday the Nobel Assembly announced they awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Umm...in more layman terms, their independent works showed that tiny particles of light can be "entangled" and behave like a single unit, even when separated by large distances. The phenomenon was famously called "spooky action at a distance" by Albert Einstein, who dismissed the theory.

Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information, including encrypted communication.

Alain Aspect is French and is associated with Université Paris-Saclay, Paris and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. John Clauser is an American and is associated with the University of California, Berkeley and John F. Clauser and Associates. Anton Zeilinger is Austrian and is associated with the University of Vienna.