Nobel physics prize goes to pioneers of quantum mechanics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden, October 7, 2025. (Photo: TT News Agency/Christine Olsson/REUTERS)

The Nobel winners carried out experiments in the mid-1980s with an electronic circuit built of superconductors and demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties could be made concrete on a much larger, macroscopic scale.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

Last year's prize was won by US scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton for breakthroughs in machine learning that spurred the artificial intelligence boom.