BEIJING: Alain Aspect of France, John Klauser of the United States and Anton Zeilinger of Austria received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their contributions to the study of quantum mechanics.

The awarding body noted that all three were recognized for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing violations of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science".

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prize, more than a century old, valued at 10 million Swedish crowns ($902,315).

The second Nobel Prize announced this week is the Physics Prize.
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Pabo, who sequenced the Neanderthal genome, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday.

The winners of the academic disciplines of Chemistry and Literature will also be announced next week in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Economics Prize will take place on Friday, with the Peace Prize, the most anticipated award and the only prize to be announced in Oslo, Norway, closing things on 10 October.

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With the exception of the Economics Prize, the prizes were presented by Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833–1966).

The first prize was awarded in 1901, five years after Nobel's death.

The prizes will be presented on 10 December – the date of Nobel's passing in 1896 – and are worth 10 million kronor (about $900,000) each.

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Last year, German Klaus Hasselmann and Japanese and American Tsukuro Manabe shared a physics prize for their work on climate models. The Italian Giorgio Parisi also received an award for his research on the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.