announced Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences For the award of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alan Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, the prestigious award is 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.14 million).
The members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said during the press conference that they were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their research in experiments with entangled photons, which proves the violation of Bell’s inequality and leadership in quantum information science.
This year’s Nobel laureate John Clauser has built a device that simultaneously emits two entangled photons, each toward a filter that tests their polarization. The result was a clear violation of Bell’s inequality and agreed with the predictions of quantum mechanics.
Alain Aspect, a Nobel laureate in physics, has developed a setup to fill an important loophole. He was able to switch the measurement settings following the entangled pair left its source, so the setting that was present when they were emitted might not affect the result.
It is noteworthy that Siukuru Manabe, Klaus Haselmann and Giorgio Baresi were awarded this award last year for their “pioneering contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
“Complex physical systems are chaotic and difficult to understand. This year’s award honors new methods of describing them and predicting their long-term behavior,” the Nobel Prize-granting body said in its statement.
Japanese meteorologist and climatologist Seokuro Manabe, 90, and climate modeler Klaus Haselmann, 89, shared half the prize for “physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantification of variance and reliable prediction of global warming.” The second half of the prize was awarded to Italian physicist Giorgio Baresi, 73, “for his discovery of the interaction of turbulence and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic scale to the planetary scale.”
The Nobel Prize in Physics is the second award given this week, following Americans David Julius and Erdem Patbutian won the Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch.
