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

South China Morning Post / 13 July 2026 / 8h ago

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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

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

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