Quantum leap: A Walnut Creek physicist’s entangled journey leads to the Nobel Prize

A Walnut Creek-based physicist has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on quantum information science.

John Clauser, 79, will share the nearly $900,000 prize with two fellow physicists who followed in his footsteps: Alain Aspect, of Universite Paris-Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique in France, and Anton Zeilinger, of the University of Vienna in Austria.