Three U.S.-affiliated physicists won the 2025 Nobel Prize for demonstrating macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in a superconducting electric circuit.
Trio who made quantum discovery awarded Nobel prize
Three researchers received the Nobel Prize for 1984–85 experiments demonstrating macroscopic quantum phenomena that underpin superconducting circuits crucial to quantum computing and related quantum technologies.
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
British, French and American scientists won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for superconducting systems demonstrating quantum tunneling, enabling quantum cryptography, computing and sensing.
