Physics

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.

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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.

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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.

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Interview

Interview with the 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you first learn about your Nobel Prize?  Geoffrey Hinton: I was more or less asleep in a hotel room in California, and I had by phone upside down on the bedside table with the…

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Interview

Interview with the 2024 physics laureate John J. Hopfield, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How big a role did physics play in your childhood?  John J. Hopfield: I don’t know if you have children, but young children learn what their parents do. Parents do something highly visible, a fireman…

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Banquet speech

Michel H. Devoret’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professor , Professor and myself, we wish to thank The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the extraordinary honor of this prize.  It is a mystery to me why my…

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Award ceremony speech

English Presented by Professor Göran JohanssonMember of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMember of the Nobel Committee for Physics Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,Esteemed Nobel Prize Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The fundamental and yet counterintuitive laws of quantum physics have inspired human imagination since they were discovered. One hundred years ago, in the summer of…

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