Dharamsala, India – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, congratulates the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2022 and said, "I rejoice that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anton Zeilinger and his colleagues for work that has so much potential to bring benefit to the whole of humanity.”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulates the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2022 on October 5, 2022. The three scientists, Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and paving the way for quantum information science".
“I am very pleased to learn that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists, Alain Aspect, John Clauser and my friend, Anton Zeilinger for their work in developing experimental tools that have laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology. I offer my congratulations to them for their pioneering research," His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote.
“In my discussions with scientists over almost four decades, I have had several fruitful conversations with Prof. Zeilinger in relation to quantum physics. We met first in 1997 here in Dharamsala, following which I visited his laboratory at the University of Innsbruck in 1998. We have subsequently met here in Dharamsala during meetings of the Mind & Life Institute," His Holiness added.
“I have great respect for modern science and have thought long and deeply about it, not only with regard to what it has to tell us about reality, but also in terms of how it may influence human values. I rejoice that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anton Zeilinger and his colleagues for work that has so much potential to bring benefit to the whole of humanity,” the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said.
According to the Office of His Holiness the Dalai lama, His Holiness also written separately to Anton Zeilinger to convey his congratulations, as well as offering his prayers and good wishes.
