
John Clarke
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John Clarke (born 10 February 1942) is a British experimental physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his various works on measurement devices based on superconductivity. Steven Girvin has called Clarke "the godfather of superconducting electronics". In the 1980s, Clarke led a research team that included John M. Martinis and Michel Devoret. Their discoveries in macroscopic quantum phenomena using the Josephson effect earned them the Nobel Prize
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How John Clarke's Nobel Prize-Winning Research Paved the Way for Quantum Computing - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)
UC Berkeley physicist John Clarke accepts Nobel Prize in Sweden - University of California, Berkeley
John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - University of California, Berkeley
Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clarke Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov)