Pan Jianwei becomes first Chinese scientist to win the top UN basic science prize

Chinese quantum scientist Pan Jianwei has won the United Nations’ top fundamental science prize for his work in quantum computation and communications, Unesco has announced. Pan is a laureate of the third Unesco-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences, an award commemorating Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table. The annual award, which is funded by the Russian government, honours two scientists for discoveries and innovations in basic sciences that...


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