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American physicist (born 1958)

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John Matthew Martinis is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led a team to develop a superconducting quantum computer at the Quantum AI Lab. With the Sycamore processor, the team claimed the first evidence of quantum supremacy in 2019.

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2025Nobel Prize in Physics
2021John Stewart Bell Prize
2019Nature's 10
2014Fritz London Award
1996Samuel Wesley Stratton Award
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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John Matthew Martinis is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led a team to develop a superconducting quantum computer at the Quantum AI Lab. With the Sycamore processor, the team claimed the first evidence of quantum supremacy in 2019. He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and Michel Devoret for joint work on macroscopic quantum phenomena in superconductors.

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Born 1958 · age 68
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