John Stewart Bell

Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)

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Born: John Stewart Bell , 28 July 1928, Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK
Died: 1 October 1990 (aged 62), Geneva , Switzerland
Alma mater: Queen's University of Belfast ( BSc ), University of Birmingham ( PhD )
Known for: Bell's theorem , Bell state , Bell's spaceship paradox , Bell–Kochen–Specker theorem , Chiral anomaly , CPT symmetry , Superdeterminism , Quantum entanglement
Awards: Heineman Prize (1989), Hughes Medal (1989), Paul Dirac Medal and Prize (1988)
Institutions: Atomic Energy Research Establishment , CERN , Stanford University
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John Stewart Bell (28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories.

In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for work on Bell inequalities and the experimental validation of Bell's theorem.