April 1, 2004
The European Physical Society has awarded the 2004 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize to Prof. Michel Devoret, of Yale Applied Physics & Physics, and three other scientists [from France, the Netherlands, and Japan] for the “realization and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits” [quantum integrated circuit physics]. The Europhysics Prize, one of the most prestigious physics prizes presented in Europe, is given to internationally important areas of condensed matter physics.