Nobel Prize

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics by professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2025. Interview about the awarded work “This brings quantum physics from the subatomic world onto a chip” Göran Johansson, professor in applied and theoretical quantum physics and member of the Nobel…

Fred Ramsdell in the laboratory, 2015. Fred Ramsdell and his wife Laura O’Neill on a hike in Yellowstone National Park just after finding out the news about Ramsdell being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025. Fred Ramsdell on a hike in Yellowstone National Park in October 2025.

Medicine laureate Shimon Sakaguchi arriving to the Nobel Prize Museum for the Get together with the 2025 laureates. Shimon Sakaguchi in his office on announcement day. Photo taken by his wife Noriko Sakaguchi. Professor Shimon Sakaguchi at a press conference held at University of Osaka after the announcement of his Nobel Prize, 6 October 2025.

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Scientific background

Quantum properties on a human scale The Nobel Prize laureates in physics for 2025, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. Their superconducting…

Swedish 7 oktober 2025 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2025 till John ClarkeUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA Michel H. DevoretYale University, New Haven, CT ochUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA John M. MartinisUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA och Qolab, Los Angeles, CA, USA ”för upptäckten av makroskopisk kvantmekanisk tunnling och energikvantisering i en…

English 7 October 2025 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to John ClarkeUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA Michel H. DevoretYale University, New Haven, CT andUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA John M. MartinisUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Qolab, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical…