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Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has declared 2025 as the Year of Quantum Science and Technology under the leadership of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ...

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Max Born made many contributions to quantum theory. This said, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1954 for establishing the statistical interpretation of the ____________. Fill in the blank ...