SASA Foreign Member Anton Zeilinger, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Austrian physicist Anton Zelinger (b. 20 May 1945), a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, together with Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser, is the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were awarded for quantum experiments with entangled photons, thus establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.

Academician A. Zeilinger completed his bachelor’s studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna, received his PhD in 1971, and was elected an assistant professor in 1979. He worked as an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981-1983) and the University of Vienna (1983-1990), followed by his work as a professor at the Technical University of Munich (1988-1989), University of Innsbruck (1990-1999) and at the University of Vienna since 1999. He has worked at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

He has been a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1998,  a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2005 and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2002. He was elected a SASA foreign member in 2006.

In 2009, he founded the International Academy Traunkirchen dedicated to the support of gifted students of science and technology.

He has received the following awards: Junior Prize of the Theodor Körner Foundation in 1980; Prix Vinci d’Excellence in 1995 and European Optics Prize in 1997. He was proclaimed the scientist of the year in Austria in 1996, and other awards as follows:  the Science Prize of the City of Vienna in 2000, Humboldt Prize in the same year, Erwin Wenzl Prize in 2001, Austrian cross for merits in sciences and arts in 2001, Johannes Kepler Prize in 2002, Sartorius Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 2003, Klopsteg Memorial Award in 2004, Lorenz Oken Medal in 2004, King Faisal International Prize in 2005, an honorary doctorate of the Humboldt University Berlin in 2005, Isaac Newton Medal in 2007 and Wolf Prize in Physics in 2010.