Interview with Ulrich Eckern on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for Clarke, Devoret and Martinis Author: Erich Runge My accompanying opinion piece as Chair of the Condensed Matter Division emphasizes that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is not an early tribute to the...
Author: Erich Runge When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis ‘for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit’ my first three thoughts were (i) ‘Oh, a...
7 October 2025 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” Read the press release of The Royal Swedish Academy of...