Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect of the University of Paris-Saclay, John F. Clauser of J. F. Clauser & Associates, and Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. The story of their individual research paths is not only a fascinating narrative of how experimental physics confirmed the most counterintuitive prediction of quantum mechanics, but also that of a struggle for the right to conduct research out of pure curiosity, regardless of the potential for its application. Ironically, quantum entanglement is today at the heart of rapidly developing quantum information technology.