John M. Martinis

John M. Martinis
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S., Ph.D.)
AwardsFritz London Memorial Prize, 2014 John Stewart Bell Prize, 2021
Scientific career
Thesis Macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy-level quantization in the zero voltage state of the current-biased Josephson junction  (1985)
Doctoral advisorJohn Clarke

John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team in a multimillion dollar deal to build a quantum computer using superconducting qubits.