The Quantum World Congress (QWC) announced on September 18 that it was giving John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, its Academic Pioneer in Quantum Award for 2025. Preskill earned a BA from Princeton and a PhD from Harvard in physics, and joined the Caltech faculty in 1983. He started his career as a theoretical high energy physicist, working on ideas spanning particle physics to cosmology. Since the mid-1990s, Preskill has focused his work on quantum computing