Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret | |
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Devoret in 2017 | |
| Alma mater | University of Paris-Sud Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications |
| Known for | Quantronics, single-electron pump, Circuit quantum electrodynamics |
| Awards | Micius Quantum Prize 2021, John Bell Prize (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Experimental Solid-state physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum error correction |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara Yale University University of Paris-Sud University of California Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Vincent Bouchiat |
Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopic quantum tunneling, and the single-electron pump as well as in groundbreaking contributions to initiating the fields of circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantronics.