John Clauser

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John Clauser (left) with Mike Nauenberg, 2010

John Francis Clauser (born December 1, 1942 in Pasadena , California ) is an American experimental physicist who deals with the fundamentals of quantum mechanics .

Clauser is the son of a professor for aircraft construction ( Francis Hettinger Clauser , * 1913) at Caltech and studied at Caltech ( Bachelor 1964) and at Columbia University , where he obtained his master’s degree in 1966 and in 1969 with Patrick Thaddeus on the measurement of the cosmic Doctorate in microwave background . He then worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory until 1975 and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1975 to 1986 . He then worked as a research physicist at the University of California, Berkeley . In a basic experiment, he tested with Stuart Freedman , the Bell's Theorem , which they previously to inequality CHSH (Clauser, Michael Horne , Abner Shimony and Richard Holt 1969) generalized. That was the first observation of quantum entanglement and the first experiment that showed the violation of Bell's inequality (and thus confirmed quantum mechanics). Then he dealt with atomic interferometers .

He also dealt with the confinement of plasmas with magnetic mirrors ( magnetic flask ).

In 2010 he received the Wolf Prize in Physics with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Stuart J. Freedman, Clauser: Experimental test of local hidden variable theories. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 28, 1972, p. 938. According to the recollections of Clauser, this type of experiment was received very critically at the time and only the support of Charles H. Townes made it possible to carry out in Berkeley.
  3. ^ Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony, Richard Holt: Proposed experiment to test local hidden variable theories. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 23, 1969, p. 880. Clauser, Horne: Experimental consequences of objective local theories. In: Physical Review D. Volume 10, 1974, p. 526
personal data
SURNAME Clauser, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauser, John Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California