Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger win the Nobel Prize in Physics

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

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The committee said the prize was awarded for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering quantum information science."

John F. Clauser is an American physicist.

Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.

Anton Zeilinger is a quantum physicist from Austria.

Nobel Prize in Physics