John Stewart Bell

John Stewart Bell FRS[2] (28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990)[3] was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories.[4][5][6][7][8]

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John Stewart Bell
Bell in 1982
Born	John Stewart Bell 28 July 1928 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Died	1 October 1990 (aged 62) Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater	Queen's University of Belfast (BSc) University of Birmingham (PhD)
Known for	Bell's theorem Bell state Bell's spaceship paradox Bell–Kochen–Specker theorem Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly Chiral anomaly CPT symmetry Superdeterminism Quantum entanglement
Awards	Heineman Prize (1989) Hughes Medal (1989) Paul Dirac Medal and Prize (1988)
Scientific career
Institutions	Atomic Energy Research Establishment CERN, Stanford University
Thesis	Contribution to field theory (i. Time reversal in field theory, ii. Some functional methods in field theory.) (1956)
Doctoral advisor	Rudolph E. Peierls
Other academic advisors	Paul Taunton Matthews[1]: 137

In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for work on Bell inequalities and the experimental validation of Bell's theorem.[lower-alpha 1][9]