This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the Frenchman Alian Aspect (1947), the American John Clauser (1942) and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger (1945) for their discoveries about the phenomenon of quantum entanglement of photons. The three brought the theoretical physics of quantum mechanics, formulated by Niels Bohr, with experiments with photons to the level of physical reality.
This knowledge about quantum mechanics makes it possible to build very powerful quantum computers and to encrypt messages ‘uncrackably’. This was announced by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm on Tuesday morning.
The three laureates share the amount of money tied to the Nobel Prize – 10 million Swedish kronor, about 918,000 euros, to be spent as they see fit. Aspect, Clauser and Zeilinger already shared the Wolf Prize for physics in 2010.
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