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Also known as A. Zeilinger, A Zeilinger, Zeilinger, Zeilinger A, Zeilinger A.

Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)

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Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian physicist, university teacher, and non-fiction writer whose field of work is quantum physics. Born on May 20, 1945, he is a citizen of Austria and speaks English and German. He was educated at the University of Vienna, where Helmut Rauch served as his doctoral advisor. Zeilinger has worked at the TU Wien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Innsbruck, with Vienna listed as a work location.

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Zeilinger has received the Isaac Newton Medal, the Wilhelm Exner Medal, the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the Pour le Mérite. He is also recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Physics collections.

His published works include *Die Physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie*, *What Are You Optimistic About?*, *Quantum Arrangements*, *The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation*, and *Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics*. He participated in dOCUMENTA (13) and supervised the doctoral student Pan Jianwei.

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  • Die Physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie
  • What Are You Optimistic About?
  • Quantum Arrangements
  • The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation
  • Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics

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Anton Zeilinger(born on 20 May 1945 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria) is a professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously Innsbruck. He became a member of K.A.V. Marco-Danubia Wien, a catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband. Zeilinger is known for multiple experiments in the realm of quantum interferometry, and the demonstration of quantum teleportation. His work influenced the experimental progress in a new sub-field of physics - quantum information theory. <

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  • I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2022

    for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

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Anton Zeilinger ( German: [ˈanton ˈtsaɪlɪŋɐ]; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. Zeilinger is professor of physics emeritus at the University of Vienna and senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most of his research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of quantum entanglement.

In 2007, Zeilinger received the first Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics, London, 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". In October 2022, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and John Clauser for their work involving experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.

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