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unusual facts about Anton Zeilinger


Innviertel

The Innviertel is the birthplace of the physicist Anton Zeilinger, of Franz Xaver Gruber, the composer of the Silent Night Christmas carol, of the Schwanthaler family of Baroque sculptors, but also of the SS official Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter.


Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester

In 1994, Anton Zeilinger, Paul Kwiat, Harald Weinfurter, and Thomas Herzog actually performed an equivalent of the above experiment, proving interaction-free measurements are indeed possible.

Quantum biology

Derek Abbott, Julio Gea-Banacloche, Paul C. W. Davies, Stuart Hameroff, Anton Zeilinger, Jens Eisert, Howard M. Wiseman, Sergey M. Bezrukov, and Hans Frauenfelder, "Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology―trivial or not?" Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 8(1), pp.


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