Why this person is here
Shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with Michel Devoret and John Martinis for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. The Nobel facts page lists UC Berkeley as his affiliation at the time of the award and dates the underlying experiments to 1984–85, when the three showed that a superconducting circuit with an insulating barrier behaves as one quantum object.
How it connects to the data on this site
This is the experimental origin of the superconducting route tracked in the registry; a company page describing a transmon-based processor is pointing back at a result measured in a Josephson-junction circuit, not at a software milestone.
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Verification status: pending. Sources are institutional or first-party pages checked on 2026-11-06, but a link is not a verification — the current wording of each affiliation still needs a line-by-line human pass.
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