Former Visiting Research Fellow Anton Zeilinger awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

Anton Zeilinger, who was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton in 1998, has been jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Alain Aspect and John Clauser, for their work involving experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.

Anton Zeilinger is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna, and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Born in Austria in 1945, he has previously held positions at the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, and visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Berlin's Humboldt University, and the Collège de France in Paris. His previous awards include the 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics, the Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2007, and the 2005 King Faisal International Prize.

Having first come to Merton as a Visiting Research Fellow in 1998, Professor Zeilinger returned in 2010 at the invitation of Professor Artur Ekert as a Visiting Researcher, during which time he gave the 4th Ockham Lecture, speaking on the subject of 'Quantum Games and Free Will'.

Watch the announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics