John M. Martinis

John M. Martinis
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S., Ph.D.)
AwardsFritz London Memorial Prize, 2014[1] John Stewart Bell Prize, 2021[2]
Scientific career
Thesis Macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy-level quantization in the zero voltage state of the current-biased Josephson junction[3]  (1985)
Doctoral advisorJohn Clarke[3]

John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team in a multimillion dollar deal to build a quantum computer using superconducting qubits.[4]

  1. ^ "Fritz London Memorial Prize". phy.duke.edu. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ^ "John Stewart Bell Prize". Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Physics Tree - John M. Martinis". academictree.org. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ^ Finley, Klint (2014-09-05). "The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-11-02.