For significant and sustained contributions in the field of superconductor digital electronic technology as a researcher, educator and mentor, in particular,
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for promoting the development Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) digital logic and for pioneering its application in digital technology
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his leadership of two world renowned research groups in the physics and applications of superconductor and single-Cooper-pair devices and circuits, initially, at Moscow State University and, later, at Stony Brook University
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and for his authorship of many seminal papers and books on Josephson junction physics and technology, macroscopic quantum effects and single-Cooper-pair devices.