Dr. John Clarke, Dr. Michel Devoret and Dr. John Martinis, funded by DEVCOM ARL, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of macroscopic quantum tunneling and vitality quantization in superconducting circuits which might enhance military intelligence, present safe communications and increase synthetic intelligence.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — U.S. military-funded scientists received two 2025 Nobel Prizes for groundbreaking research that would enhance battlefield intelligence and navigation, strengthen military communications and shield Soldiers from chemical threats.
Dr. John Clarke, Dr. Michel Devoret and Dr. John Martinis received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of macroscopic quantum tunneling and vitality quantization in superconducting circuits.
Their research, funded and guided over a long time by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory with associate businesses, positioned superconducting gadgets as a number one platform for quantum computing. Quantum computing might enhance military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; present safe navigation in GPS-denied environments; and increase synthetic intelligence to help military missions.
“This award highlights not only a scientific breakthrough, but also the long-term impact of the U.S. Army’s strategic investment in high-risk, high-reward research,” stated Dr. Anne Marie Petrock, ARL Army Research Office performing director. “Through our consistent leadership and funding of superconducting-qubit research at Yale, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Berkeley and partner institutions, we accelerated the evolution of early discoveries into practical quantum technologies. This significant accomplishment strengthens national defense by positioning the U.S. at the forefront of innovation in quantum science.”
The workforce’s authentic experiments, performed in educational laboratories within the Nineteen Eighties, contributed to the expectation that superconducting gadgets exhibited the specified quantum conduct for quantum computing. Much of the workforce’s most influential work, together with advances in superconducting qubit coherence, quantum management, quantum-limited amplifiers and non-reciprocal microwave gadgets, was supported by ARL or by ARL-managed applications in partnership with different U.S. authorities entities.
Dr. Omar Yaghi, a professor at UC Berkeley, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work within the growth of metal-organic frameworks, a brand new type of molecular structure. These supplies are being developed with the potential to boost Soldier safety capabilities by detecting and neutralizing chemical threats and filtering poisonous substances. He shared the prize with two colleagues, Dr. Susumu Kitagawa at Kyoto University, Japan and Dr. Richard Robson at University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Omar Yaghi received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work within the growth of metal-organic frameworks, a brand new type of molecular structure, that contribute to new supplies that can shield Soldiers from chemical threats.
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Early in his research, Yaghi collaborated with DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center in synthesizing MOFs for destruction of chemical threats and filtration of poisonous substances. That early research obtained funding from leveraged partnerships between the Chemical and Biological Defense Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and ARL.
MOFs have since led to revolutionary ideas in private safety tools and will enhance the subsequent protecting swimsuit. MOFs additionally present promise in areas akin to air and gasoline storage, carbon dioxide scrubbing, atmospheric water harvesting, water filtration and stabilized explosives. These and lots of different functions enabled by this breakthrough help layered safety, a significant focus space of Army Acquisition Transformation.
By various the constructing blocks used within the MOFs, chemists can design them to seize and retailer particular substances; they’ll additionally drive chemical reactions or conduct electrical energy.
“These 2025 Nobel Prizes are not only a recognition of scientific achievement but also a validation of the Army’s leadership and foresight in cultivating technologies and a workforce essential to future warfighting and strategic technological dominance,” Petrock stated.
In its nearly 75-year historical past, DEVCOM ARL’s Army Research Office has recognized, led and funded groundbreaking science and discovery that laid the inspiration for developments acknowledged by 29 Nobel Prize winners.
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