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    Mar 12, 2020 3 minutes

    SCIENTIST GETS TOP PHYSICS AWARD

    Physicist Xue Qikun has won the 2020 Fritz London Memorial Prize, along with Frank Steglich from Germany and Valerii Vinokur from the U.S., the prize committee announced. Xue is the first Chinese scientist to receive the international award that recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of low-temperature physics.

    The 57-year-old, who heads the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, won the honor for pioneering contributions to the experimental discovery of quantum anomalous Hall effect. The Hall effect, discovered by Edwin Hall in 1879, is the production of a voltage difference across an electrical conductor. Xue’s contribution will help accelerate the development of low power-consuming electronics.

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