Michel Devoret

Michel Henri Devoret^[2] (fr; born 1953)^[3][4] is a French physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara^[5][6] and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University.^[7] He is the chief scientist for quantum hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for his work on macroscopic quantum phenomena.

Michel Devoret
Devoret in 2017
Born	Michel Henri Devoret 1953 (age 71–72)
Education	University of Orsay (PhD)
Awards	John Bell Prize (2013) Micius Quantum Prize (2021) Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	Collège de France Yale University University of California, Santa Barbara
Thesis	Mise en évidence d'un ordre orientationnel de type vitreux dans l'hydrogène et le deutérium solides[1] (1982)

Devoret, John Clarke, and John M. Martinis were given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025 for their work in superconductivity.^[8]