The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michael Devoret and John Martinis on Tuesday for demonstrating quantum mechanics — the study of how atoms and even smaller particles behave — on a large scale. “[The laureates] used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand,” read a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The laureates’ disc...
