The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Awarded on: 2022-10-04
"for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"
Affiliations:
- J.F. Clauser & Assoc. – Walnut Creek, CA, USA
John F. Clauser
Born: 1942-12-01 in Pasadena, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (born 1942)
Biography
John Francis Clauser is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality. Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".