It is the most prestigious prize awarded annually in the scientific world. Nobel laureates That was announced this week. While the winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine was recently announced, today Nobel Laureates in Physics announced.

The Nobel Committee awarded the names Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for the Nobel Prize in Physics. The three names, in their joint work entangled photons He succeeded in pioneering quantum science by exposing the violation of Bell inequalities.

What is the significance of the success of the three scientists?

The success of the three scientists continues to develop at lightning speed. An important step for quantum information science it happened. With the development of quantum information science, areas such as secure information transfer, quantum computing and sensing technology will begin to take place in our lives.

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger with Nobel Prize in Physics 10 million Swedish crowns It also won a cash prize. Last year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics were split between Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, who create physical models of Earth’s climate, accurately predict warming and measure variability, and Giorgio Parisi for his discovery of fluctuations and disorder in physical systems. from the atomic to the planetary scale.