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🧠Michel Devoret, Télécom Paris graduate, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
Michel Devoret (class of 1975) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025, alongside John Clarke and John M. Martinis, for their work "on the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and the quantization of energy in an electric circuit".
Trained at Télécom Paris, Michel Devoret has built up an exceptional career at the crossroads of physics and engineering. A pioneer in quantronics, he demonstrated that the laws of quantum mechanics, until then observed at the particle scale, could be manifested in macroscopic superconducting circuits. This breakthrough paved the way for the development of the quantum computer.
Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, he directed the Nanofabrication Laboratory in Applied Physics, before joining Google Quantum AI as Chief Scientist, where he contributed to the design of superconducting qubits.
The first Télécom Paris graduate to win a Nobel Prize, Michel Devoret embodies the values of our school: scientific rigor, international openness and a spirit of innovation in the service of progress.
