"I wasn't quite sure at the beginning whether or not this was a sort of a junk call, but it became clear that it was real, Clarke told reporters during a news conference Tuesday. I was sitting there just feeling completely stunned. It never occurred to me in my entire life that anything like this would ever happen."
"This is going to cripple science, and it is going to be disastrous if this continues, he said. Assuming that the present administration finally comes to an end, it may take a decade to get back to where we were, say, half a year ago. I think it's a huge problem which is entirely beyond any understanding of anyone as a scientist."
Retired UC Berkeley physics professor John Clarke and two former colleagues won the Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1980s discovery that enabled superfast quantum computers and contributed to the invention of the iPhone. Clarke, 83, received the call from Sweden announcing the award at 2:09 a.m. and initially hesitated to answer, feeling stunned. The prize is shared with former postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret and former graduate student John Martinis, both affiliated with UC Santa Barbara and connected to Google's Quantum AI hardware efforts. The research advanced quantum cryptography, computing, and sensing, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory funded much of the research and equipment. Concerns were raised that proposed federal funding cuts could cripple science and take years to recover.
Read at www.mercurynews.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]