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Michel Devoret

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Michel Henri Devoret is a French-American physicist, born in Paris in 1953, who trained as a telecommunications engineer before taking his doctorate in quantum condensed matter physics at the University of Orsay. After a postdoctoral stay with John Clarke at Berkeley, where he worked with John M. Martinis, he founded the Quantronics group at CEA Saclay and later held a chair at the Collège de France and a professorship at Yale University. He is known for superconducting qubit designs including the quantronium, the transmon and the fluxonium, and he is now Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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1953 2
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    born 5 March 1953
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    Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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    He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures
  • Lead, prize
    Devoret shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and John M. Martinis
  • Lead, nationality
    is a French-American physicist
  • Works In: Physics, Lead, discipline
    Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Member Of: Yale University, Career, yale-university
    Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University
  • Member Of: Collège de France, Career, college-de-france
    Michel Devoret held the Chair of Mesoscopic Physics at the Collège de France
  • Member Of: University of California, Santa Barbara, Career, university-of-california-santa-barbara
    Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  • In Group: Quantum Physics And Quantum Information, Lead, group placement
    He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures
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2. NobelPrize.org: NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize laureate record: Michel H. Devoret
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    "gender": "male"
  • Laureate record, birth year
    "year": "1953"
  • Laureate record, Nobel Prize
    "awardYear": "2025"
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