Nobel Prize

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…

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…

Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 2025

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran JohanssonLedamot av Kungliga VetenskapsakademienLedamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter,Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Kvantfysikens både fundamentala men samtidigt kontraintuitiva lagar har inspirerat människors fantasi ända sedan de upptäcktes. För hundra år sedan, sommaren 1925, lade grunden till matrismekaniken medan han försökte undkomma pollen och hösnuva på…

Artist: Catharina BauerCalligrapher: Marie A. GyöriBook binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi ABPhoto reproduction: Dan Lepp© The Nobel Foundation 2025

Artist: Catharina BauerCalligrapher: Marie A. GyöriBook binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi ABPhoto reproduction: Dan Lepp© The Nobel Foundation 2025

Artist: Catharina BauerCalligrapher: Marie A. GyöriBook binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi ABPhoto reproduction: Dan Lepp© The Nobel Foundation 2025

Quantum tunnelling The 2025 physics prize is about quantum mechanics. What is it? Quantum mechanics is the field that scientists use to describe the small world, at the level of atoms and particles. At this level, different physical laws apply. A special science, quantum mechanics, is needed to explain how everything is connected. One of…

Prehistoric Superconducting Qubits John M. Martinis delivered his Nobel Prize lecture on 8 December 2025 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Olle Eriksson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

From macroscopic quantum phenomena to artificial atoms Michel H. Devoret delivered his Nobel Prize lecture on 8 December 2025 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Olle Eriksson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.