Nobel Prize for Physics goes to 3 scientists from US

Three scientists from the US have been conferred the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics for their experiments on a chip that revealed quantum physics in action. The prestigious prize has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.

Two scientists are from the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara -- John Clarke and John M Martinis. Michel H Devoret is from Yale University, New Haven, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The trio will share the prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move straight through a barrier, using a process called tunnelling. As soon as large numbers of particles are involved, quantum mechanical effects usually become insignificant.The laureates’ experiments demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties can be made concrete on a macroscopic scale.