Prince of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research 2006

Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research on Spanish physicist Juan  Ignacio Cirac, director of the Max Plank Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, for his worldwide leadership in proposing and developing quantum computing, a new science of the 21st century that comes from combining two of the most outstanding creations of the 20th century.