The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis (From L to R) for their pioneering experiments that revealed quantum mechanical effects in a device large enough to be held in the hand — a leap that brings the strange world of quantum physics into tangible reality.
The trio’s groundbreaking work in the 1980s used superconducting electronic circuits to demonstrate two key features of quantum mechanics — tunnelling and quantised energy levels — in a macroscopic system. Their achievement has opened new pathways toward advanced quantum technologies, including quantum computers and sensors.
