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A native Angeleno won a Nobel Prize in physics for experiments in the mid-1980s that built the foundation for quantum computers.

His current goal is to bring quantum computing out of the lab and into the hands of people who can use it.

A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn’t done working.

For the last 40 years, John Martinis has worked — mostly within California — to create the fastest computers ever built.

“It’s kind of my professional dream to do this by the time I’m really too old to retire. I should retire now, but I’m not doing that,” the now 67-year-old said.

Born and raised in San Pedro, Martinis said his California hi

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