John Stewart Bell Prize

The John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications (short form: Bell Prize) was established in 2009, funded and managed by the University of Toronto, Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC).^[1] Named after John Stewart Bell (the physicist behind Bell's theorem, a theorem whose experimental vindication led to a Nobel Prize), it is awarded every odd-numbered year, for significant contributions relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the applications of these principles – this covers, but is not limited to, quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum foundations, quantum cryptography and quantum control.^[2] The selection committee has included Gilles Brassard, Peter Zoller, Alain Aspect, John Preskill, and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, in addition to previous winners Sandu Popescu, Michel Devoret and Nicolas Gisin.^[3]

Awarded Prizes

Year	Medalists[4]	Affiliation	Reason
2009	Nicolas Gisin	Professor of Physics at the Université de Genève	For his theoretical and experimental work on quantum nonlocality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.[5]
2011	Sandu Popescu	Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, UK	For discoveries of stronger-than-quantum no-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics.[6]
2013	Michel Devoret and Robert J. Schoelkopf	Professors of Applied Physics at Yale University, USA	For their work on entangling superconducting qubits and microwave photons, and their application to quantum information processing.[7]
2015	Rainer Blatt	Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Innsbruck, and director of Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck, Austria	For his works on quantum information processing with trapped ions.[8]
2017	Ronald Hanson, Sae Woo Nam, and Anton Zeilinger	Delft University of Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Vienna respectively	For "their groups’ experiments simultaneously closing the detection and locality loopholes in a violation of Bell's Inequalities".[9]
2019	Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller	Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and University of Innsbruck with IQOQI respectively	For "groundbreaking proposals in quantum optics and atomic physics on how to engineer quantum systems . . . and using Projected Entangled Pair States for the theoretical study of quantum many body systems".[10]
2021	John M. Martinis	University of California, Santa Barbara	For innovations in designing and controlling superconducting devices[11]
2024	John Preskill	Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology	For "developments at the interface of efficient learning and processing of quantum information in quantum computation, and following upon long standing intellectual leadership in near-term quantum computing."[12]

See also

• List of physics awards