Laurent Simons is one of the most talked-about young minds in science today. At just 15, the Belgian prodigy defended a PhD in quantum physics at the University of Antwerp, reaching a level of ...

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Laurent Simons became one of the world’s youngest PhD recipients in November, earning a doctorate in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp. The 15-year-old boy now plans to pursue a second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visual representation of tensor networks. (Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation) Efforts to advance quantum computing are also ...