'X', born in the UK, was conferred the Nobel Prize in 2025 and was a professor in an American univer

Question

'X', born in the UK, was conferred the Nobel Prize in 2025 and was a professor in an American university when the prize was announced. Identify 'X':

Accepted Answer

John Clarke was born in Cambridge, UK, and was jointly awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling in an electric circuit. At the time of announcement, he was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Michel H. Devoret was born in France; Richard Robson was born in the UK but was at the University of Melbourne (Australia); Joel Mokyr was born in Netherlands.