"Quantum mechanics — you can think of it as a very nervous banker," Martinis said during the inaugural Frontiers of Discovery Lecture, hosted by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board. Rosey Limmer Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis lectures in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium. Their work showed that quantum mechanics — long thought to govern only the invisibly small — could be observed in everyday-scale electrical circuits, opening the door to quantum computing. Rosey Limmer John Martinis speaking about his research to Cornell students. Just last semester, he had been learning in class about the very phenomena that earned Martinis the Nobel Prize.

Source: Daily Sun April 10, 2026 13:04 UTC