https://it-news.uk/tags/quantum/ Recent content in Quantum on IT News Hugo en-us Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/pan-jianwei-unesco-mendeleev-prize-quantum/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/pan-jianwei-unesco-mendeleev-prize-quantum/ <p>There&rsquo;s a quiet kind of revolution happening in quantum physics, and one of its architects just picked up a major global prize.</p> <p>Pan Jianwei — a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China — has become the first Chinese scholar to receive the UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Basic Science Award. The ceremony took place Wednesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Pan shared this year&rsquo;s honor with Sergei Sheiko, a chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recognized for his contributions to polymer physics and materials science.</p>