SWEDEN: Three researchers—Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger—were given the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 on October 4 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science.”
On December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s passing in 1896, the award will be presented together with a certificate, a gold medal, and a cash prize of $9,000,00.
The Nobel Committee claims that the group has shown the ability to examine and manage entangled states of particles. Two particles can be said to be entangled when they are in the same state, regardless of how far off they are from one another.
According to scientists, when two particles are entangled, someone who measures one particle’s property can instantly know the outcome of an analogous measurement on the other particle.
The Nobel Committee stated that this year’s laureates “have probed these entangled quantum states, and their investigations established the groundwork of the revolution currently happening in quantum technology.” Entanglement is one of the most contentious aspects of quantum physics.
The Nobel Committee stated that this year’s laureates “have probed these entangled quantum states, and their investigations established the groundwork of the revolution currently happening in quantum technology.” Entanglement is one of the most contentious aspects of quantum physics.
The statement said, “The laureates’ creation of experimental instruments has created the framework for a new era of quantum technology.”
The work of this year’s laureates is regarded as groundbreaking because significant research is being done to build quantum networks, secure quantum encrypted communication, improve measurements and construct quantum computers by finding a way to utilize the unique properties of individual particle systems.
Last year also, three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Their contributions to explaining and forecasting complicated natural phenomena were rewarded which improved our comprehension of climate change
While Georgio Parisi received the other half of the prize “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales,” Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann shared one-half of the award “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability, and reliably predicting global warming.”
Svante Paabo of Sweden received the first Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize of the year for his work on the Denisova, another extinct human species, and his discovery of Neanderthal DNA secrets that provided important insights into our immune system.
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