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Photo of Nobel Prize winner John F. Clauser, Oct. 4, 2022

No one took John F. Clauser’s quantum experiments seriously. 50 years later, he collects a Nobel Prize.

On October 4, 80-year-old John F. Clauser woke up in his California home to find he had received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He will receive the award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10 with Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect for their work on quantum entanglement. It was a moment of celebration …

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Researchers adapt Nobel Prize-winning method to design new ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Researchers adapt Nobel Prize-winning method to design new ultra-powerful X-ray systems

An electron beam passes through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC’s LCLS-II X-ray laser. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Lab If scientists want to push the limits of an X-ray laser, for example, they may need to create new technology. But sometimes you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Instead, scientists are simply …

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