""It's kind of my professional dream to do this by the time I'm really too old to retire. I should retire now, but I'm not doing that,""
""I think before then I'd just write down the solution""
""This was a fantastic experience, to be mentored by two wonderful people,""
""I learned so much from them that, through my whole career, I was kind of trying to re-create that spirit that we had in there.""
John Martinis is a California-born physicist who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for mid-1980s doctoral experiments demonstrating quantum tunneling in large objects, forming the experimental basis for quantum computers. Martinis grew up in San Pedro and credits high school teachers with inspiring his interest in physics and teaching mathematical rigor and organization. He studied at UC Berkeley and benefited from mentorship by John Clarke and Michel Devoret. At 67, Martinis is a professor at UC Santa Barbara and remains focused on transitioning quantum computing from laboratory research to practical, usable technology.
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