Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain
Award Name : Benjamin Franklin Medal
Year of Award : 2010
Award for : Physics
Location : Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 11 October 1965) is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research.He received The Franklin Institute's 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.