Sundar Pichai says 5 Googlers have won Nobel Physics Prizes, congratulates 2025 winners for ‘incredible progress’
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai congratulated the winners of this year’s Nobel Physics Award and said that one of the three people who won is a scientist working on Google and the other is an old employee.
Pichai said in a shipment in the social media platform X (formerly called twitter) that he was proud to have a five Nobel Prize in the last two years, including those earned in the last two years.
Sundar Pichai says ‘We opened the way’
“We congratulate Michel Devoret, John Martinis and John Clarke for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Michel is the chief scientist in the field of hardware of our Quantum AI laboratory, and John Martinis has led the hardware team for many years.”
Pichai praised the winners for his winning work and added: “In the 1980s, the pioneering works in quantum mechanics made the last breakthroughs possible, and he opened the path of quantum computers whose errors were corrected.”
“I was in our quantum laboratory in Santa Barbara yesterday and I saw incredible progress, I hope they are celebrating today. This morning, I feel lucky to have been working in a company – who have won 3 awards in 2 years!” shared.
According to a report of Hindustan Times, Martinis left Google in 2020 and became the founding partner of Qolab, the quantum calculation attempt in 2022.
2025 Nobel Physics Award: What was given for?
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is given to experiments showing how quantum tunnel can be observed on a macroscopic scale containing many particles.
2025 Nobel Prize holders John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis used a series of experiments to show that the strange features of the quantum world can be embodied in a system that is large enough to hold.
The triple did an experiment using a super -conductive electrical circuit. The size of the chip holding this circuit was about one centimeter.
Previously, tunnel opening and energy quantities were worked in systems with only a few particles. Here, this phenomenon emerged in a quantum mechanical system of billions of Cooper couples that have completed the entire supercase on the chip.
In this way, the experiment took quantum mechanical effects from microscopic scale to macroscopic dimension.
