Professor Yasunobu Nakamura of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) and Group Director of RIKEN was announced on Friday 1 January as the recipient of the 2020 Asahi Prize. Professor Nakamura, together with Professor Zhaoxin Cai of Tokyo University of Science and RIKEN team leader, will receive the prize for “the creation of superconducting qubits that contribute to the development of quantum information technology”. The award ceremony will be held in Tokyo on Thursday 28 January.

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