About Jaw-Shen Tsai
Born 1952. Jaw-Shen Tsai is a Taiwanese physicist.
Jaw-Shen Tsai (; born February 8, 1952) is a Taiwan-born American physicist specializing in low-temperature solid-state physics. He is known for pioneering research on superconducting qubits and their quantum control.
Early life and education Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 8, 1952. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and earned his PhD in physics in 1983 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 2010: Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics 2013: Quantum Innovator Award 2018: Medal with Purple Ribbon 2021: Asahi Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura) 2023: Japan Academy Prize (with Yasunobu Nakamura)
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