The Nobel Prize 2025 has been announced for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine so far. In Physics, the Nobel Prize is being shared by three scientists — John Clarke of University of California, Michel H Devoret of Yale University and John M Martinis of University of California — for their work in macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors,” the website said.
Clarke, Devoret and Martinis used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
For Chemistry, the prize has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California) for the development of metal-organic frameworks.
“Through the development of metal–organic frameworks, the laureates have provided chemists with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges we face,” the website informed.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Mary E Brunkow of the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Fred Ramsdell of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University, for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
The trio “made groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body. Their discoveries have laid the foundation for a new field of research and spurred the development of new treatments, for example for cancer and autoimmune diseases”, the website cited.
