Wolfson College Honorary Fellows Artur Ekert and David Deutsch receive Chinese Quantum Prize

Quantum mechanics was discovered at the beginning of the 20th Century and has been an enormously successful theory of the nature. It has led to the development of many of today's most widely used technologies. A new science foundation, the Micius Quantum Foundation, established the "Micius Quantum Prize" to recognise scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of quantum communications, simulations, computation, and metrology. The themes of the 2018 and 2019 Micius Quantum Prizes are quantum computation and quantum communications, respectively. 

One of the laureates for the Micius Quantum Prizes 2018 is David Deutsch, Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, for his seminal conceptual contributions on The Quantum Turing Machine and quantum algorithms. The Micius Quantum Prizes 2019 were awarded to the field of quantum communications, where Artur Ekert was awarded for his invention of entanglement-based quantum key distribution, entanglements swapping, and entanglement purification. 

In adition to Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, Artur Ekert is the Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies. He is best known as one of the inventors of quantum cryptography. 

David Deutsch has been a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a founding member of the Centre for Quantum Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society.