John Clauser
American physicist, co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental work demonstrating violations of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science, and co-formulator (with Michael Horne, Abner Shimony, and Richard Holt) of the 1969 CHSH inequality. In the vault he appears, alongside Shimony, as one of the two contemporaries named by Yu Shi's 2025 historical analysis as having identified the structural limitation of the Wu-Shaknov apparatus — that its two wings could only measure polarizations parallel or perpendicular to each other, never at the intermediate angles a Bell-inequality test requires — which is part of why the 1957 Bohm-Aharonov paper could not have anticipated Bell's 1964 result despite Aharonov's later priority claim.
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