79-year-old John Clauser of Walnut Creek went to bed a retiree and woke up a Nobel Prize winner for his landmark achievements in quantum mechanics.
"I'm happy, it's been a long time waiting," he said.
The walls of his home, are plastered with trophies, not from his research or work in physics but rather, from his first passion.Honored alongside two other scientists out of France and Austria, the Nobel Committee for Physics says their discovery laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology."It turns out that Einstein was wrong," he said.
Clauser conducted his first experiment, where he made this discovery, at UC Berkeley a half-century ago in 1972. "Very few people who thought I was doing anything important, everyone kept telling me, 'no, no you're wasting time and money, go back and finally start doing some real physics for a change,'" he said. "His definitions of reality really didn't quite work."
Nevertheless, he stuck to his research and was later awarded the 'Wolf Prize' by the Wolf Foundation in Israel back in 2010, which by some, can be considered a stepping stone to getting a Nobel Prize.
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