Alain Aspect
Born: 15 June 1947, Agen, France
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institut d’Optique Graduate School – Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France; École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Prize motivation: “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
Prize share: 1/3
John F. Clauser
Born: 1 December 1942, Pasadena, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
Prize share: 1/3
Anton Zeilinger
Born: 20 May 1945, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Prize motivation: “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
Prize share: 1/3
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Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time