Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for their work in quantum mechanics, Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced on Tuesday.The institute said the scientists had been recognized for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science."Most prestigious award:The Nobel Prize is considered the most prestigious award in the fields it's awarded.
Notable winners in physics have included Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and James Chadwick.The three science prizes always take the first three days in a week of Nobel Prizes, with physiology and medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday, and chemistry on Wednesday.
The Nobel Prizes for literature, peace and economic sciences follow from Thursday.Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi won the physics prize last year for their work on climate change modeling.This year's winners receive a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kroner (about €920,000; $908,000), a Nobel medal and world fame.
The prizes will be handed out at a gala dinner in December.Nobel's legacy The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded 115 times since the prize's first year in 1901.