Awards & Winners

Anton Zeilinger

Date of Birth 20-May-1945
Place of Birth Ried im Innkreis
(Austria, Upper Austria)
Nationality Austria
Profession Physicist
Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist who in 2008 received the Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information". Zeilinger is professor of physics at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most of his research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of quantum entanglement.

Awards by Anton Zeilinger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Anton Zeilinger.

2010


Wolf Prize in Physics
(For their fundamental conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, specifically an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of Bell\u2019s inequalities or extensions there of using entangled quantum states.)