Quantum technology pioneers win physics Nobel

Physics 2022 Nobel prize winners

Source: © Nobel Prize Outreach/Niklas Elmehed

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are honoured for establishing quantum information science

Three scientists have won the 2022 physics Nobel prize for laying the foundations for quantum computing. Alain Aspect, from the University of Paris-Saclay in France, John Clauser at J F Clauser & Associates in the US and Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna, Austria, share this year’s prize for their pioneering experiments conducted between the mid-1970s and late 1990s.