Physics

Interview

Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Michel Devoret on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you tell us about your childhood?  Michel Devoret: I was born in 1953. My father was a biologist, and my mother was a schoolteacher. I grew up first in the city of Montreuil,…

more

Biographical

A Journey Guided by Questions Every serious endeavor should start with a proper question. What is worthy of being shared with the rest of the world in a biographical sketch of someone largely unknown before October 3, 2023? To be honest, even after serious deliberations, I didn’t find a convincing answer. What follows is an…

more

Eleonora Svanberg, a PhD student in mathematics at the University of Oxford, sits down with 2025 physics laureate John Martinis for a conversation about curiosity, discovery and the future of quantum technology. Martinis reflects on the choices that led him to exploring quantum mechanical behaviour and discusses his groundbreaking work – conducted with co-laureates Michel…

more

Interview

Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John Martinis on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you tell us about your childhood?   John Martinis: Both my parents did not go to college. My father was a fireman, which actually is a very technical occupation where you have to know…

more

Photo gallery

SLAC’s Burton Richter and MIT’s Samuel Ting at a SLAC symposium in 1984, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the J/psi discovery. On 11 November, 1974, two research teams announced they had independently of each other discovered a new subatomic particle, J/psi. While the teams performed their experiments, the J/psi popped up as a bump in…

more

Prize presentation

Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of Michel H. Devoret receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.

more

Prize presentation

Award ceremony video Watch a video clip of John Clarke receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.

more

Prize presentation

Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of John M. Martinis receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.

more