John Clarke
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John Clarke
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
Born: 1942, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”
Prize share: 1/3
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