Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. These three Nobel laureates in physics are French physicist Alain Aspect, American physicist John F. Clauser and Austrian physicist Anton Zellinger. These three scientists will receive 10 million Swedish kroner.
On Tuesday at 3:45 pm Bangladesh time, the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden announced their names as Nobel laureates in physics. The Nobel Committee said that they have been awarded this prize in physics in 2022 for their significant contribution to the research of quantum entanglement and the proof found in the Bell Inequality experiment.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the names of the Nobel laureates were announced in 2020 and 2021 by organizing small-scale events in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Apart from the organizing committee, no other guests were present on that occasion.
This year, the Nobel Foundation will invite the 2022 laureates along with the laureates of the past two years to Nobel Week in December. There, on December 10, the value of the Nobel Prize 10 million Swedish kroner (about 900,000 dollars), as well as a certificate and a gold medal will be handed over to the laureates.
Earlier, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was announced on Monday for a groundbreaking study of extinct hominid genes and human evolution. Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo received this medical award.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year. They were Japanese-born American physicist Shukuro Manabe, German physicist Klaus Hasselmann and Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi.
They received the Nobel Prize in recognition of constructing structural models of global climate, discovering scientific methods for predicting and accurately measuring global warming, and discovering the interactions between the physical structure and fluctuations of the atomic and planetary scales.
According to the Nobel Foundation website, a total of 115 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in physics from 1901 to 2021. A total of 47 people received this award alone. Australian-British physicist Lawrence Bragg became the youngest Nobel laureate in physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father at the age of 25.
Apart from this, a total of four women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics so far. Marie Curie received it in 1903, Maria Goeppert-Meyer in 1963, Donna Strickland in 2018 and Andrea Ghez in 2020. Only one person in Nobel’s history has won the prize twice in physics. He was the scientist John Burdeen. But Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 96.
This year’s Nobel Prize season kicked off with the announcement of the Nobel Laureate in Medicine on Monday. The names of the Nobel laureates will be announced tomorrow in Chemistry on Wednesday and in Literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize winners will be announced next Friday (October 7). And on October 10, the ceremony of announcing the Nobel Prize will end with the announcement of the winner in economics.
In the 19th century, Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel invented the highly destructive explosive called dynamite, which made him the owner of a huge fortune. Before his death, he bequeathed — that every year those who make special contributions to 5 causes should be awarded out of this money. Those 5 subjects are – medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. The Nobel Prize ceremony started in 1901.
The Nobel Prize in Economics was introduced much later in 1968. The Bank of Sweden instituted this award in memory of Alfred Nobel. This year’s Nobel Prize announcement ceremony, which started on Monday, will end on October 10.