•The United Nations has said 2025 will be designated the ‘International Year of Quantum Science and Technology’.
•The proclamation is result of a resolution led by Mexico in May 2023
•In May 2024, Ghana submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. General Assembly asking for an official proclamation, with the support of over 70 other countries.
•The General Assembly acceded on June 7.
•2025 will be a century since Nobel winner German physicist Werner Heisenberg published a famous paper in which he reinterpreted a series of tweaks — required for classical mechanics to make sense of the quantum phenomena being discovered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — to lay the foundation stone of what would come to be called quantum mechanics.