“Yet Wu, who died in 1997, was not mentioned when the 2022 awards were announced.”
Chien-Shiung Wu and Irving Shaknov published evidence of entangled photons in a one-page Physical Review letter on New Year’s Day 1950. Historians agree it was the first experiment to document them. The 2022 prize went to Clauser, Aspect and Zeilinger for improving on their predecessors’ designs. The committee honoured the refinements and forgot the original.