By Raza Mehdi
Oct 08, 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger for their pioneering work in quantum information science.
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John Francis Clauser is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics.
John Francis Clauser
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Alain Aspect is known for his Bell's inequalities tests with pairs of entangled photons that have contributed to settling a debate between Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr.
Alain Aspect
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Zeilinger is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Vienna and a senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Anton Zeilinger
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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of ‘click chemistry’ and bioorthogonal chemistry.
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Carolyn Bertozzi is an American chemist. Her chemistry expertise advances research into cancer immunotherapies, tumour biology and COVID-19.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
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Morten Peter Meldal is a Danish chemist. He is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Morten Peter Meldal
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Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. He is now a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry and the only Nobel laureate to have won twice in the same category
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
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French author Annie Ernaux won this year's Nobel Prize in literature for blending fiction and autobiography in books that “fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s.”
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The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been jointly awarded to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Centre for Civil Liberties.
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The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens.
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