Congratulations to Michel Devoret, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics! Devoret won the prize for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. The prize rewards the discovery and demonstration that quantum mechanical properties can be realized on a macroscopic scale with behaviors predicted by quantum mechanics. Devoret shares this year’s prize with John Clarke of UC Berkeley and John Martinis of Silicon Quantum Computing. The team’s work has provided a profound positive impact on the development of next-generation quantum technology.
In 2002, the W. M. Keck Foundation awarded a $1.2 million grant to Yale University to support an interdisciplinary project in coherence, control and noise in quantum information systems. Michel Devoret was one of six principal investigators supported by this initiative. The W. M. Keck Foundation is proud to have provided early funding to awardees of 11 Nobel prizes.