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First reactions | John Martinis, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview

First reactions | John Martinis, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview

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 “My wife is very kind to me, so she didn’t wake me up for a couple of hours.” John Martinis was sleeping when news of his Nobel Prize in Physics broke, but his wife Jean was up reading late into the night and received the calls, letting him sleep on. In this conversation with the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith, he talks about the excitement of learning how to investigate problems with his co-laureates John Clarke and Michel Devoret, four decades ago, and how that experience taught him what to aim for when building labs in academic and industry subsequently.

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First reactions | John Martinis, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview

First reactions | John Martinis, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview