The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 11th annual Breakthrough Prizes, which included the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Anna Grassellino, director of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, based at Fermilab, and Hannes Bernien, assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
Grassellino received a 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize of $100,000 as a researcher for her work and impact in particle accelerator technology and quantum information science.
Among the three outstanding early-career scientists to be awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize, she received the award “for the discovery of major performance enhancements to niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities, with applications ranging from accelerator physics to quantum devices.”
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Given to promising early-career researchers who have produced significant work, Bernien and his colleagues are being recognized for developing optical tweezer arrays able to control individual atoms for use in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.
Bernien shares the $100,000 prize with Manuel Endres of Caltech, Adam Kaufman of the University of Colorado, Kang-Kuen Ni of Harvard, Hannes Pichler of the University of Innsbruck and Jeff Thompson of Princeton