Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action


  • World
  • Tuesday, 07 Oct 2025

A sign for the Nobel Prize in Physics is displayed in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Physics is to be announced, in Stockholm, Sweden October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Little

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action", paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies.

"My feelings are that I'm completely stunned. Of course it had never occurred to me in any way that this might be the basis of a Nobel Prize," Clarke told the Nobel press conference by telephone on Tuesday.

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