Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.
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US scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments demonstrating quantum physics in action. Their work, proving ...
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their research into the strange world of subatomic quantum tunneling, work that significantly ...