UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden

In a ceremony full of splendor, music and admiration, UC Santa Barbara physics professors Michel Devoret and John Martinis, alongside their mentor, UC Berkeley physicist John Clarke, on Dec. 10 officially received their Nobel Prizes from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Each presented with a medal and a diploma, the scientists were selected for the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”