Nobel Prize

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “My wife is very kind to me, so she didn’t wake me up for a couple of hours.” John Martinis talks about the excitement of learning how to investigate problems with his co-laureates and , four decades ago, and how that experience taught him what to aim for when…

Portrait of John Clarke. John Clarke and student Andrew Miklich with Magnetcardiology, May 1991. John Clarke in the 1990s. John Clarke, 5th from the left, in his student days at Cambridge University. Year: 1966. John Clarke in his student days at Cambridge University.

First reactions. Telephone interview with John Clarke, October 2025 “None of this work would have happened without the two of them.” In this interview shortly after the prize announcement, the new physics laureate John Clarke is still stunned by the news. He praises his co-laureates John Martinis and Michel Devoret, whom he worked together with…

Interview with the 2006 Nobel Prize laureates in physics, John C. Mather and George F. Smoot on 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. John Mather, George Smoot, welcome to Stockholm. John Mather: Thank you. George Smoot: Thank you very much. When you very kindly spoke to me just after you…

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…

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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…