Nobel Prize for Physics 2025: Swedish Academy selects three winners

On 7th October, 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy announced John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis as the winners for the Physics category. Their experiment illustrated that quantum mechanical properties can be made solid on a nanoscale and “provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology,” the academy said in a statement. 

Three winners selected in the Physics category

• On October 7, 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, announced the three winners for their contributions in Physics. 
• The winners are John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis for physics. The prizes were awarded for “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling, energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.
• Their experiment illustrated that quantum mechanical properties can be made solid on a nanoscale, the Royal Swedish Academy said.
• They said in a statement, their work has “provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors”.
• The prize money of 11 million kronor is to be presented to the winners for their achievement, and it will be shared equally among the winners, along with gold medals from the King of Sweden. 
• In 2024, the award was presented to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work in machine learning. The first person to be awarded this prestigious honor in physics was Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1901.
• He is credited with the discovery of X-rays in 1895, which revolutionized the field of medicine and surgery, enabling medical professionals to examine the inner structures of patients.

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