Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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John Clarke
John Clarke is a British experimental physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his various works on measurement devices based on superconductivity. Steven Girvin has called Clarke "the godfather of superconducting electronics."
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Born 10 February 1942 · Q555849
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2025· 3 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2025).
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Was largely funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences in the United States Department of Energy
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2006· 1 entry
Published “Using thematic analysis in psychology” in Qualitative Research in Psychology — cited 153,433 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (2004).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (1998).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Fritz London Award (1987).
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1972· 1 entry
Was elected a Fellow of Christ's College; in 1989, he was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and in 1998 was elected a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
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1969· 1 entry
Clarke also joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, eventually retiring as a faculty senior scientist in the Materials Sciences Division in 2010
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1965· 1 entry
Clarke became one of the first students to enter the newly founded Darwin College, Cambridge, and was the first president of the Darwin College students' association
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1962· 1 entry
And was also a previous student of Pippard
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-02-10.
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