Seated: Ketterle, Maldecena, Haroche, Henneaux, Gross, Zoller, Wineland, Preskill, Halperin, Wen
Second row: Aharonov, Stanford, Engelhardt, Aaronson, Rey, Vazirani, Girvin, Schoelkopf, Blatt, Cirac, Gottesman, Shor, Verstraete
Third row: Sevrin, Hubeny, Gambetta, Terhal, Simmons, Khemani, Nakamura
Fourth row: Marcus, Bloch, Browaeys, Vidick, Pollmann, Wiebe, Penington
Fifth row: Jiang, Fisher, Wall, Harlow, Martinis, Troyer, Farhi, Almheiri, Calabrese, Altman

Frank Verstraete @fverstraete “The conference was great, and it was a great honour to be the rapporteur on the topic of quantum information and many-body physics.”

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The 2022 Science for the Future Solvay Prize has been awarded to Katalin Karikó for her work on the biochemical modification of synthetically produced messenger RNA (mRNA), which has enabled the rapid development of vaccines that saves many lives. It could also help fight other diseases like cancer, infection from influenza, malaria, or HIV in the future. Professor Karikó is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked for 24 years before joining BioNTech SE in 2013 as a senior VP. She is also professor at University of Szeged, Hungary from where she received her PhD in biochemistry in 1982.

Here are some of the smartest people alive on our little Planet Earth. We will now search back through the writings of each to see if any have a highly-integrated, mathematical view of the universe.

How can we grasp the dynamics of the universe without such an integrated view? How can we know about quantum information if we haven’t a sense of the origins of the quanta? Going back to Max Planck’s natural units seems like a natural thing to do. Do the 202 base-2 notations give us a map of exponential notation that mimics the expansion of the universe better than big bang cosmology? The numbers are virtually the same.