John Stewart Bell
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Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
Key facts
- 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
- Thesis
- Contribution to field theory (i. Time reversal in field theory, ii. Some functional methods in field theory.) (1956)
- Doctoral advisor
- Rudolph E. Peierls
- Other academic advisors
- Paul Taunton Matthews
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Bell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Place of death
- Geneva
- Occupation
- translator
- Educated at
- University of Birmingham
- Employer
- CERN
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- Bell test experiments
- Academic degree
- honorary degree
- Doctoral advisor
- Rudolf Peierls
- Student of
- Paul Peter Ewald
- Image
- John bell 2.png
- Residence
- Belfast
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- date of birth
- 1928-07-28
- date of death
- 1990-10-01
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Commons category
- John Stewart Bell (physicist)
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- John Stewart Bell
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- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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