Nobel Prize in Physics Winner: John Martinis on the State of Quantum

Welcome today. I'm very excited for this all in interview with this week's Nobel Laureate, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025, John Martinis. John, welcome to the all in interview. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me. I'm quite excited about this, this talk and, you know, love to explain to people about, you know, what this prize is all about. All of you. Alright, besties. I think that was another epic discussion. People love the interviews. I could hear him talk for hours. Absolutely. We crushed your questions a minute. We are giving people ground truth data to underwrite your own opinion. What'd you guys say? That was fun. I'm doing all in. Well, the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious honor and particularly in physics that I think can be awarded. You're in the record books. It's gonna be an incredible ceremony coming up for you. Maybe we could go back to the beginning in your history. I'd love to hear a little bit about, you know, where'd you grow up and how do you get started with your interest in physics? Well, so I, I grew up in San Pedro, California and, you know, grew up there my whole time. My, my father is a fireman, and my mom stayed at home, took care of us. And, you know, through the years, I was always interested in science, technology. I'm gonna say one of the things is, you know, my my dad, you know, actually didn't have a high school education, but very smart person. He was always building things in the garage, various projects. So I grew up kinda knowing how to build things, which also kinda tells you how things work, you know, kind of empirical view, you know, tactical view of how physics works. So, when I took physics in high school, I actually loved it because there was actually some math behind it and concepts and, you know, really made sense to me. And, you know, I I just really, you know, fell in love with the subject and then went to UC Berkeley and and did pretty well there and enjoyed it, enjoyed it a lot. And then in my, senior year at UC Berkeley, I had a class from John Clark, who was my advisor, and, found out what he was doing. He was just starting to look at these quantum mechanics and electrical devices stuff, and it sounded really interesting for me. I guess I have, you know, I guess I could see maybe when when something maybe would would take off. So I started to to to do the graduate school work with him. You went to Berkeley for graduate school. Right? I went to Gertrude for bachelor school, which you're not supposed to do. I was originally a physics and math undergrad at Cal. Okay. I changed my major later and and actually got my degree in astrophysics. There was some upper division math class that really …