Editor’s note: On October 7, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Michel Devoret is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale, where he has served as a faculty member since 2002. This article presents the breakthrough work that Devoret’s group at Ya...| Yale Scientific Magazine