# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-ignacio-cirac-sasturain
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:14:17.889Z

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name: "Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin"
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description: "Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, known professionally as Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He was awarded the 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics."
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birthDate: "1965-10-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump