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Bay Area Physicist John F. Clauser Wins 2022 Nobel Prize
It all goes back to a feature of the universe that even baffled Albert Einstein and connects matter and light in a tangled, chaotic way.
October 4, 2022
Bay Area physicist John F. Clauser and two others jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, for example in the field of encryption.
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Clauser, who lives in Walnut Creek, Frenchman Alain Aspect and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for discovering the way that unseen particles, such as photons or tiny bits of matter, can be linked, or "entangled," with each other even when they are separated by large distances.
"Being a little bit entangled is sort of like being a little bit pregnant. The effect grows on you," Clauser said in a Tuesday morning phone interview with The Associated Press.
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