Modern cell phones are also built on the work of today’s winners from 40 years ago.

But perhaps this was because the academy’s announcement had committed the journalist’s faux pas of burying the lead: the ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography Three researchers in sub-atomic ...