A British, a Frenchman, and an American Win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

 Three Electrical Circuit Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize

A British, a Frenchman, and an American Win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to British physicist John Clark, French physicist Michel H. Devoret, and American physicist John M. Martinis for their discoveries concerning "geometric quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits."

The three scientists are affiliated with the University of California, and Devoret is also affiliated with Yale University. Devoret and Martinis work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, northwest of Los Angeles, and Clark at the University of California, Berkeley, near San Francisco.

"Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move directly through a barrier, using a process called tunneling," the academy said in a press release on Tuesday. The statement noted that one of the key questions in physics is the maximum size of a system that can exhibit the effects of quantum mechanics.