Raymond Laflamme has won the 2017 CAP-CRM Prize for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics "for his groundbreaking contributions on quantum information".
Peter Zoller of the University of Innsbruck has been awarded the 2006 Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) – one of the world's most prestigious physics prizes. Zoller, scientific director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is honoured for his work in atomic physics, including proposing the use of trapped ions for quantum computing. The Dirac Medal has been awarded each year since 1985 on 8August, Paul Dirac's birth date, by the ICTP, which is based in Trieste, Italy.
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 for "entangled photon experiment, proof of Weibull inequality and pioneering quantum information science". This paper reviews the growth experiences and scientific contributions of three Nobel Prize winners in physics, introduces the development of quantum information science in China, and then provides some thoughts on the relationship between basic scientific research and innovation of emerging industries in China.