Categoria over 40:
For his pioneering experiments on quantum transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene which opened new perspectives in the study of physical properties of materials at the nanoscale. Philip Kim is a world leading scientist in the research on nanoscale materials, 2D single layers, van der Walls heterostructures and low dimensional architectures and provided the groundbreaking observation of the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene, contemporary to the results obtained by the 2010 Nobel prize winners A. Geim and K. Novoselov”.
Categoria under 40:
Prof. Scott AARONSON- University of Texas – Austin- USA con la seguente motivazione: “Per aver fortemente contribuito a definire i limiti fondamentali della computazione quantistica con numerosi lavori pionieristici a cavallo fra la complessità computazionale e la meccanica quantistica.For his strong contribution to define the fundamental limits of quantum computation with a number of pioneering works at the frontier of computational complexity and quantum mechanics”.
