A chief scientist at Google was one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum computing.

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That’s normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...

John Martinis, together with John Clarke and Michel Devoret, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, earning the honour for ...

Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of ...

How the study of the tunnel effect at the macro level will help to create a new generation of computers and sensors ...

The winners are John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for work on quantum tunneling in superconducting circuits.

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the prize for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum ...

U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and Greek American John M. Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in ...

After a daylong game of phone tag, the Nobel Prize committee finally spoke to one of the recipients of the prize in medicine, ...