Ten days following receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Anton Zeilinger has been honored once more today: Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen awarded the quantum physicist the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver with the star for services to the Republic of Austria. “In recent decades, Anton Zeilinger has shaped the image of science like no one else,” says Van der Bellen.
The 77-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Vienna, who works at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Academy of Sciences, shares this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics with French physicist Alain Aspect and his US colleague John Clauser.
They were honored “for experiments with entangled photons, proof of violation of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. They share the Nobel Prize, which is endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (around 900,000 euros).
