Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for demonstrating quantum tunneling in electrical circuits

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Three American scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for making quantum effects tangible in an electrical circuit. John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis demonstrated quantum tunneling in a circuit with superconductors and an insulator, generating electrical voltage. Their 1984-1985 breakthroughs at UC Berkeley allowed observation of quantum phenomena at a human scale, earning them 11 million Swedish kronor.


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