The University of Innsbruck congratulates Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger – University of Innsbruck
The Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger has received the Nobel Prize in Physics. From 1990 to 1999 he researched and taught at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck.
“I warmly congratulate Anton Zeilinger on the Nobel Prize. It is a great hour for Austrian physics, but also for the University of Innsbruck, at whose Institute for Experimental Physics Anton Zeilinger researched and taught from 1990 to 1999 and where he carried out several of the recognized groundbreaking experiments, including the first quantum teleportation with photons in the year 1997,” says Rector Tilmann Märk happily.
The quantum teleportation experiment was the first to transfer the quantum state of one particle to another particle at a distance. Last but not least, Zeilinger’s successes were also a reason for expanding quantum physics in Innsbruck and later leading to the founding of the Academy Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck and Vienna. At the University of Innsbruck, more than 20 working groups are currently conducting research in the field of quantum physics, including the development of the quantum computer.