Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

John Clarke

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Prize share: 1/3

Michel H. Devoret

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Prize share: 1/3

John M. Martinis

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

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