Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret | |
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Devoret in 2025 | |
| Born | Michel Henri Devoret 1953 (age 72–73) Paris, France |
| Education | Télécom Paris (Dipl.Ing.) University of Orsay (DEA, PhD) |
| Known for | Transmon Fluxonium Quantum limited amplification |
| Awards | Ampère Prize (1991) John Bell Prize (2013) Fritz London Memorial Prize (2014) Micius Quantum Prize (2021) Comstock Prize in Physics (2024) Nobel Prize in Physics (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics Quantum information Quantum measurements |
| Institutions | Collège de France Yale University University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Thesis | Mise en évidence d'un ordre orientationnel de type vitreux dans l'hydrogène et le deutérium solides (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Neil S. Sullivan |
| Doctoral students | Vincent Bouchiat |
Michel Henri Devoret (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl dəvɔʁɛ]; born 5 March 1953) is a French-American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the fluxonium.
He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and John M. Martinis for their joint work on macroscopic quantum phenomena in superconducting circuits.