Michel H. Devoret

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Michel H. Devoret

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Michel H. Devoret
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

Born: 1953, Paris, France

Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

Prize share: 1/3

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