Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Putting Quantum Mechanics in the Palm of our Hands

In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – celebrating 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics – it seems apt that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three quantum physicists. On 7 October, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis were jointly recognized “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” The trio led a series of experiments in the mid-1980s at the University of California,...