NDTV: Quantum Tech, Spirituality: What PM Modi Discussed With Nobel Laureate Anton Zeilinger
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Anton Zeilinger 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.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Vienna (2024).
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Won Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2023).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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Awarded doctor honoris causa of the University of Innsbruck (2022).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2022).
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Won Vernadsky medal (2020).
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Awarded Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna (2018).
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Awarded Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna (2018).
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Won Urania Medal (2013).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2011).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2010).
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Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009).
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Founded the International Academy Traunkirchen, which is dedicated to the support of gifted students in science and technology
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Won Isaac Newton Medal (2008).
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Physics World: Anton Zeilinger scoops first Isaac Newton medal
Awarded Wolfgang Paul Lecture (2007).
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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 co
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk (2006).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin (2005).
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (2005).
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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2005).
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Zeilinger with his group investigated the quantum physics of mechanical cantilevers
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Performed the first implementation of one-way quantum computation
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Won Lorenz Oken Medal (2004).
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Awarded Johannes Kepler Award (2002).
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2001).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2000).
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Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (2000).
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Zeilinger abandoned atom optics for experiments with very complex and massive macro-molecules – fullerenes
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Succeeded in providing the first experimental evidence of entanglement beyond two particles and also the first test of quantum nonlocality for GHZ states
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Opened up a very active field of research
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(published in 2000), his group was the first to implement quantum cryptography with entangled photons
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Provided the final test of Bell's inequality closing the communication loophole by using superfast random number generators
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Published “Experimental quantum teleportation” in Nature — cited 4,728 times.
Awarded Kardinal-Innitzer-Preis (1996).
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Was the first with Daniel Greenberger and Michael Horne to work on entanglement of more than two qubits
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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.”
Zeilinger returned to MIT, as an associate professor on the physics faculty, until 1983
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With a thesis on "Neutron depolarization measurements on a Dy-single crystal" under Helmut Rauch
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Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor of Natural Sciences (1971).
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Born 1945-05-20.
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In Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria
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