The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger, along with Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Zeilinger, affiliated with the University of Vienna and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, received the prize on December 10, 2022, in Stockholm.
Zeilinger’s experiments with quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation, conducted over several decades at Austrian institutions, laid much of the experimental groundwork for quantum communication and quantum computing. He served as president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2022 and was the founding director of IQOQI Vienna.
Austria’s Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research Martin Polaschek attended the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm. The prize reinforced Austria’s standing in quantum physics and drew attention to the country’s research ecosystem, which at that time included the ongoing €107 million Quantum Austria funding initiative and active Austrian participation in European quantum infrastructure projects.