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John Clarke
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-02-10 ) 10 February 1942 (age 84) , Cambridge , England, UK
- Education
- Perse School
- Alma mater
- Christ's College, Cambridge ( BA ) Darwin College, Cambridge ( PhD )
- Known for
- Macroscopic quantum phenomena SQUIDs
- Awards
- FRS (1986) Joseph F. Keithley Award (1998) Comstock Prize in Physics (1999) Hughes Medal (2004) Micius Quantum Prize (2021) Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
- Fields
- Condensed matter physics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley (1969–2010)
- Doctoral advisor
- Brian Pippard
- Doctoral students
- John M. Martinis (1985)
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2025
“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Clarke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Brian Pippard
- Doctoral student
- John M. Martinis
- Image
- John Clarke (physicist) 2025 (4x5).png
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- date of birth
- 1942-02-10
- member of
- American Physical Society
- different from
- John Mason Clarke
- name in native language
- John Clarke
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Encyclopedic overview
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 in Physics in 2025.
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