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Michel Devoret is a French physicist born in Paris in 1953. He holds citizenship in France and speaks French. Devoret was educated at Télécom Paris and the University of Paris-Sud. His professional career has included positions at Yale University, the University of Paris-Sud, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Collège de France.
His research focuses on physics, superconductivity, condensed matter physics, and quantum mechanics. Devoret has received several honors, including the Prix Ampère, the Fritz London Award, the Comstock Prize in Physics, and the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1959-01-01
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 30
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 593
- Cited by
- 50,620
Research areas
Most cited works
- Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box2007 · 3,324 cit
- Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires1997 · 2,930 cit
- Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information: An Outlook2013 · 2,090 cit
- Single Charge Tunneling1992 · 2,081 cit
- Introduction to quantum noise, measurement, and amplification2010 · 1,916 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,311x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,214x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,135x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,665x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,152x
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Key facts
- Born
- Michel Henri Devoret , ( 1953-03-05 ) 5 March 1953 (age 73) , Paris , France
- Education
- Télécom Paris ( Dipl.Ing. ), University of Orsay ( DEA , PhD )
- Known for
- Transmon , Fluxonium , Quantum limited amplification
- Awards
- Ampère Prize (1991) , John Bell Prize (2013), Fritz London Memorial Prize (2014) , Micius Quantum Prize (2021), Comstock Prize in Physics (2024), Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
- Fields
- Condensed matter physics , Quantum information , Quantum measurements
- Institutions
- Collège de France , Yale University , University of California, Santa Barbara
- Thesis
- Mise en évidence d'un ordre orientationnel de type vitreux dans l'hydrogène et le deutérium solides (1982)
- Doctoral advisor
- Neil S. Sullivan
- Doctoral students
- Vincent Bouchiat
via Wikipedia infobox
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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