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Michel Devoret, graduate of Télécom Paris (1975), co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

07 Oct. 2025
Michel Devoret, a former student at Télécom Paris (class of 1975), received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside his British and American colleagues John Clarke and John M Martinis. The three scientists were recognized for their discovery of the macroscopic quantum tunneling effect and the quantization of energy in an electrical circuit.
Michel Devoret, graduate of Télécom Paris (1975), co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
Crédits photo : adobestock - Bertil Jonsson

In awarding the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to Michel Devoret, John Clarke, and John M. Martinis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences highlighted the importance of their work in the field of quantum physics.

In the 1980s, the trio demonstrated that the laws of quantum mechanics could be applied on our scale and not just on the infinitely smaller scale of particles. Their work proved that the properties of the quantum world could be realized in a portable system, such as superconducting circuits. The path to the quantum computer was open. 

Michel Dévoret is now a professor at Yale University (United States) and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He receives the Nobel Prize in Physics two years after Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier (2023) and three years after Alain Aspect (2022).

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