Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Three Americans Win Nobel Prize In Physics -- Quantum Computing -- October 7, 2025

Locator: 49314NOBEL.

Link to NY Times

  • John Clarke: UC-Berkeley
  • Michel H. Devoret: Yale
  • John M. Martinis: UC-Berkeley, UC-Santa Barbara, Google quantum AI team

Human interest story on John Martinis and QoLab -- LA Times: link here. 

Soundbite: showed that two properties of quantum mechanics could be observed on a system large enough to see with the naked eye. The scientists were recognized for a series of experiments conducted in 1984 and 1985.

  • quantum tunneling:
  • quantization of energy:

All three are professors at American universities:

  • John Clarke: studied at Cambridge; a professor of physics at the University of Berkeley since, 1969
  • Michel H. Devoret: born in Paris; PhD, Paris; professor emeritus at Yale 
  • John M. Martinis: a PhD from UC-Berkeley; most recently with Google's quantum AI team; also a professor emeritus at UC-Santa Barbara