Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger win Nobel Prize for physics

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the Nobel Prize for physics for their achievements in quantum mechanics, the organizing committee announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.

The trio won “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”

Their work “has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology,” the Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences said.(CNN)