Michel Devoret, Nobel of Physics: “I Don’t Like to Make Forecasts, Technology Is More Capricious than Meteorology”

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When Michel Devoret woke up on October 7, the whole planet knew something he was unaware of: he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. “I convinced myself that it was real when my daughter called me; I knew she wouldn’t play such a joke on me,” he says, now, with laughter. This 73-year-old Parisian physicist was awarded, along with his colleagues John Martinis and John Clarke, for experimentally demonstrating that the laws of quantum …