StoryPeople
Michel Devoret, John Martinis and John Clarke win the Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for discovering macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electric circuits. Their 1980s experiments underpin today's superconducting qubits; Devoret is Google Quantum AI's chief hardware scientist and Martinis previously led its hardware team.
- Award recognizes foundational experiments establishing quantum behavior in electric circuits, the basis for superconducting qubits.
- Devoret continues as chief hardware scientist at Google Quantum AI; Martinis served as hardware lead during Google's quantum advantage work.