Anton Zeilinger

University of Vienna

Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, widely regarded as the founding father of experimental quantum information science. He performed the first experimental quantum teleportation of a quantum state in 1997 — a landmark demonstration that quantum information can be transferred between particles using entanglement, without any physical carrier of that information. Zeilinger also contributed decisively to tests of quantum nonlocality through high-precision Bell inequality experiments, closing several technical loopholes. His group demonstrated entanglement swapping, quantum dense coding, and multi-particle entanglement, establishing the experimental tools that underpin quantum networks and quantum computers. Zeilinger shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alain Aspect and John Clauser. He later became president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His laboratory has produced dozens of leading quantum physicists who now run research groups and startups developing quantum communication infrastructure globally.