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Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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Michel Devoret, a Yale professor emeritus of applied physics, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics alongside John Clarke and John M. Martinis, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis will share the prize. “There is no advanced technology used today that does not rely on quantum mechanics and quantum physics. Examples are easy to ...

UC Santa Barbara physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former adviser John Clarke. Credit: ...