John M. Martinis
John M. Martinis | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.S., Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Fritz 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 advisor | John 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.