Michel Devoret

Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret
	Devoret in 2025
Born	Michel Henri Devoret; 5 March 1953; Paris, France
Education	École nationale supérieure des télécommunications (grad. 1975); University of Orsay (grad. 1976, 1982);
Known for	Transmon; Fluxonium; Quantum limited amplification;
Awards	Ampère Prize (1991); Descartes–Huygens Prize (1995); EPS Europhysics Prize (2004); John Stewart Bell Prize (2013); Fritz London Memorial Prize (2014); Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize (2016); Micius Quantum Prize (2021); Comstock Prize in Physics (2024); Nobel Prize in Physics (2025);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Workplaces	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 (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Neil S. Sullivan
Doctoral students	Vincent Bouchiat

Michel Henri Devoret (French: [miʃɛl dəvɔʁɛ]; born 5 March 1953) is a French–American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the fluxonium.