Nobel Prize

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Artist: Sofia GisbergPhoto reproduction: © Musée Curie (coll. ACJC)© The Nobel Foundation 1903

Artist: Sofia GisbergPhoto reproduction: © Musée Curie (coll. ACJC)© The Nobel Foundation 1903

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.

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.

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.