Three physicists, including a pair of University of California, Santa Barbara professors, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for essentially bridging the gap between the invisible quantum world and the world we can see and touch.
UCSB professors John M. Martinis and Michel H. Devoret, along with John Clarke of U.C. Berkeley, were honored for experiments that revealed quantum behavior in a system big enough to hold in your hand. The trio will share an award of 11 million Swedish kronor (roughly $1 million USD).
The experiment
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selected the laureates, said the group’s groundbreaking work was conducted in 1984 and 1985…