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Key facts
- Born
- John Francis Clauser , ( 1942-12-01 ) December 1, 1942 (age 83) , Pasadena, California , U.S.
- Education
- California Institute of Technology ( BS ) Columbia University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Bell test experiments , CHSH inequality
- Awards
- Wolf Prize in Physics (2010) Nobel Prize in Physics (2022)
- Fields
- Quantum mechanics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory CO2 Coalition
- Thesis
- Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Optical Observations of Interstellar Molecules (1970)
- Doctoral advisor
- Patrick Thaddeus
- Website
- johnclauser.com
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pasadena
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- CHSH inequality
- Field of work
- quantum physics
- Official website
- johnclauser.com
- Image
- John Francis Clauser (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1942-12-01
- Commons category
- John Clauser
- name in native language
- John Francis Clauser
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- quantum mechanics
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Encyclopedic overview
John Francis Clauser (/ˈklaʊzər/; born December 1, 1942) is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality. Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". In 2023, he declared himself as a climate change denier.
Early life
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