Street named after NI physicist

Belfast City Council has named a street after John Stewart Bell, one of Northern Ireland's most eminent scientists.

The street in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been named Bell's Theorem Crescent.

He is regarded as one of the 20th Century's greatest physicists, and was believed to have been in line for a Nobel Prize in Physics when he died in 1990 from a stroke.

Fifty years ago, the Belfast scientist proved Albert Einstein wrong.

John Stewart Bell died in 1990 before he could be awarded the Nobel Prize

John Bell's brother and sister joined Lord Mayor Nichola Mallon for the official unveiling at Titanic Quarter

Bell's Theorem, more formally known as 'On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox', demonstrated that Einstein's views on quantum mechanics - the behaviour of very small things like atoms and subatomic particles - were incorrect.

His theory continues to have a lasting impact on modern physics, and is said to have laid the foundation for quantum information technology.

Street named after NI physicist

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