Michel H. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University who has spent a career probing the intricate dynamics of qubits and quantum information, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit,” the Royal Swedish National Academy has announced.

Devoret, 72, who is a founding member of the Yale Quantum Institute, shares the prize with John Clarke of the University of California-Berkeley and John M. Martinis of the University of California-Santa Barbara.

The Nobel committee cited the trio’s research together in the 1980s that “revealed quantum physics in action.”

Read more about Devoret’s work and his other impressive achievements.