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The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Images of John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis at the announcement of this year's Nobel prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
Images of John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis at the announcement of this year's Nobel prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday. Photograph: Christine Olsson/TT/Shutterstock

The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for pioneering experiments that paved the way for the next generation of quantum technologies.

John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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