2025-10-08
John Clarke left Britain in 1969 Cambridge BA/PhD (1964/1968) → postdoc at UC Berkeley in 1968 → Berkeley faculty from 1969 onward; he built his entire lab and career in the US Classic case of postwar British brain drain
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Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and del...