John Stewart Bell Prize

The John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications (short form: "Bell Prize") was established in 2009, funded and managed by the University of Toronto, Centre for Quantum Information & Quantum Control (hereafter CQIQC).^[1] It is awarded every odd-numbered year, for significant contributions relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the applications of these principles – this covers, but is not limited to, quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum foundations, quantum cryptography, and quantum control.

Awarded Prizes

• 2015: (awarded on 20 Aug) Rainer Blatt, Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Innsbruck, and director of Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck, Austria, for his works on quantum information processing with trapped ions.^[2]
• 2013: Michel Devoret and Robert J. Schoelkopf, Professors of Applied Physics at Yale University, USA, for their work on entangling superconducting qubits and microwave photons, and their application to quantum information processing.^[3]
• 2011: Sandu Popescu, Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, UK, for discoveries of stronger-than-quantum no-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics.
• 2009: Prof. Nicolas Gisin for his theoretical and experimental work on quantum nonlocality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.

References

1. "John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. University of Toronto Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC). Retrieved 23 Sep 2014.
2. "Physiker Rainer Blatt erhält Forschungspreis (German)". tirol.orf.at. Österreichischer Rundfunk. 17 Aug 2015. Retrieved 17 Aug 2015.
3. Eric Gershon (1 Aug 2013). "For two Yale quantum physicists, an honor from the north". Yale news. Yale University. Retrieved 24 Sep 2014.