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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect from France, John F. Clauser from America and Anton Zeilinger from Austria for research in quantum physics. This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
The researchers receive the award for their entangled photon experiments, in which two particles can behave as one, albeit separate. The results of these experiments could be used in the development of “supercomputers” and in encrypted communication.
Those entangled photons, or particles, have a connection so that if you research one particle, you immediately learn something about the other. The Nobel laureates have indeed shown with their research that these connections can exist. They did this by contributing to the design of the so-called Bell test: a test that proves that this special connection exists.
In addition to the certificate, the winners will receive a cash prize of SEK 10 million, equivalent to € 917,000.
Since 1901, 214 male and 4 female researchers have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. One of them, the American John Bardeen, received the card twice.
Yesterday The winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine became known: the Swedish physician and evolutionary biologist Svante Pääbo received the prize for his discoveries in the field of the genetic composition of extinct hominids and human evolution.
The awards for Chemistry, Literature, Peace and the unofficial award for Economics follow.
