The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their groundbreaking experiments, demonstrating quantum tunneling and energy quantization on a macroscopic scale.The trio conducted a pioneering experiment with a superconducting electrical circuit, where billions of electrons pair up into copper pairs. Their setup allowed these quantum effects to manifest across an entire superconductor on a chip roughly 1cm in size.
Research Revolutionises Understanding of Quantum Mechanics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences emphasized that the experiment by Clarke, Devoret and Martinis has revolutionised our understanding of quantum mechanics. It successfully showed that quantum phenomena can be observed in much larger, macroscopic systems. The research also laid the ground work for superconducting quantum circuits, a key technology in modern quantum computers. Their discovery opens doors to manipulating and harnessing quantum effects on scales previously thought impossible.
Last Year, The Prize went to AI Pioneers.
Since it’s inception in 1906, the physics prize has been awarded 118 times to 226 laureates whose discoveries have reshaped our understanding of the universe. Last year it was awarded to artificial intelligence Pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work that laid the groundwork for modern machine learning. Each prize carries global prestige and a cash award of nearly $1.2M.
The announcement continued with Chemistry, Literature and Peace Prize but we’ll get to them soon.
