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usonian

(21,962 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:05 PM Oct 8

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

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Source: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

7 October 2025

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to

John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michel H. Devoret
Yale University, New Haven, CT and
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

John M. Martinis
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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

Read more: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/press-release/



Three more Nobel Prizes for the University of California, one of which is from U.C. Berkeley.

I worked there!!
In Physics. ⚛️

And Hurrah for UCSB!!!
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (Original Post) usonian Oct 8 OP
Former UC employee here..nice for California overall BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 8 #1
the royal acadamy is rigged! rampartd Oct 8 #2
Three! usonian Oct 8 #3
After review, locking. Emile Oct 8 #4

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,885 posts)
1. Former UC employee here..nice for California overall
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:08 PM
Oct 8

rampartd

(2,773 posts)
2. the royal acadamy is rigged!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:23 PM
Oct 8

krasnov is much smarter than that guy.

usonian

(21,962 posts)
3. Three!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:39 PM
Oct 8




Emile

(38,654 posts)
4. After review, locking.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:20 PM
Oct 8

This is a duplicate of the same news story posted earlier.

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143543072

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