3 electrical circuit scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics.

 

Nobel Prize

3 electrical circuit scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Britain's John Clark, France's Michel H. Devoret, and America's John M. Martinis for their discoveries concerning "quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical circuit."

The three scientists are affiliated with the University of California, and DeVorette also has an affiliation with Yale University.

DeVoret and Martinez work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, northwest of Los Angeles, and Clark at the University of California, Berkeley, near San Francisco.

"Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move directly through a barrier, using a process called tunneling," the academy said in a press release on Tuesday.

The statement said that one of the main questions in physics is the maximum size of a system that can exhibit the effects of quantum mechanics.