Trio Including Google’s Quantum Computer Builder Win Nobel

Two physicists integral to efforts by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to build working quantum computers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with a colleague from the UK.

John M. Martinis, an American physicist who previously worked at Google to build a quantum computer, will share the 11 million-krona ($1.2 million) award with Michel H. Devoret, a chief scientist on Google’s quantum artificial intelligence team, and John Clarke for discoveries that are helping advance quantum computing and sensors, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said in a statement Tuesday.