Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 honors scientist who paved the way for the quantum era

(Dan Tri) - On October 7, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the names of three American scientists: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Nobel Prize Committee announced the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics (Photo: Reuters).

Their groundbreaking work on "macroscale quantum mechanical tunneling effects and energy quantization in electrical circuits" is recognized as essential theoretical and experimental foundations that promise to reshape the future of technology.

In the official announcement, the Nobel Prize Committee emphasized the importance of this discovery: "This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has opened the door to the next generation of quantum technologies including quantum cryptography, quantum computers and ultra-sensitive sensors."

These are areas that have the potential to revolutionize computer science , information security, and precision measurement.

The victory of the trio of American scientists is not only a personal achievement but also an affirmation of the position of physics in shaping the future.

The Nobel Prize was established in the will of Alfred Nobel and has been the world's most prestigious award, recognizing outstanding contributions to humanity since 1901.

This year's award continues the tradition of honoring foundational work that has had a profound impact.

This is reminiscent of the 2024 Nobel Prize, when two scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, were awarded for breakthroughs in the field of machine learning, the premise for today's explosion of artificial intelligence (AI).

Traditionally, the Nobel Prize in Physics is the second prize announced during Nobel week, after the Medicine Prize was awarded to two American scientists and a Japanese scientist on October 6. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced on October 11.

The three laureates will receive a total prize money of $1.2 million. The official award ceremony will be held in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, under the presidency of the King of Sweden.

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