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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 1d

The annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is happening this week. Back in June, meteorologist Michael Anand described how a unique wind pattern called the Albuquerque box makes the area uniquely well suited for hot-air ballooning.

#BalloonFiesta #physics #ballooning

Ballooning in Albuquerque: What’s so special?

A unique valley and mountain circulation forms a natural route for balloonists to navigate the atmosphere.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of a 2017 result by a group that included Omar Yaghi, one of this year's Nobel laureates in chemistry, unfortunately illustrated how inaccurate some science reporting can be. Johanna Miller discussed the episode in a 2020 column for Physics Today.

#NobelPrize #science #scicomm

Column: When bad reporting happens to good science

Researchers deserve better than the shoddy news write-ups that their work too often gets.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of a 2017 result by a group that included Omar Yaghi, one of this year's Nobel laureates in chemistry, unfortunately illustrated how inaccurate some science reporting can be. Johanna Miller discussed the episode in a 2020 column for Physics Today.

#NobelPrize #science #scicomm

Column: When bad reporting happens to good science

Researchers deserve better than the shoddy news write-ups that their work too often gets.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 2d

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Chris Gorski @scigorski.bsky.social · 2d

MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 2d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are to be awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.” Here's our brief story on the prize, which includes links to our past coverage of the designer porous materials.

#NobelPrize #chemistry #physics

Creators of metal–organic frameworks honored with chemistry Nobel

The versatile porous materials have found use across the physical sciences.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Tom Howarth @tomhowarth.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Prof Omar Yaghi and his colleagues on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on world-changing materials. 🧪

I caught up with Prof Yaghi a few weeks ago to chat all about his work. You can listen to our conversation below:
pod.link/1296673906/e...

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 2d

Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit:

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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Chris Gorski @scigorski.bsky.social · 3d

From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Interview with Professor Susumu Kitagawa

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a @science.org review Omar Yaghi published about 10 years ago

🧪 chemsky

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The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 2d

Metal–organic frameworks also have applications in carbon capture. In February 2022, we featured one that can capture carbon dioxide in flue-gas exhaust.

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Solid sorbent captures carbon

A new zinc metal–organic framework physically snatches carbon dioxide from wet gas, even in humid conditions.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 2d

And in November 2018, we covered a metal–organic framework that separates ethylene from ethane.

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A metal–organic framework separates ethylene from ethane

The calcium-based structure is an efficient sieve, despite the mere 0.3 Å size difference between the two filtrates.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

In June 2017, we covered the development, by Yaghi and colleagues, of a water-collecting device based on a metal–organic framework.

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Metal–organic framework extracts water from thin air

Until now, atmospheric water at low humidity could be condensed only at great energetic expense. A new material overcomes that challenge.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are to be awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

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Shanil Virani @shanilv.ca · 3d

I love the quote from #Yale’s Dr. Schoelkopf that puts today’s #physics #NobelPrize in context.

Mirroring the evolution of the #internet, quantum 3.0 will be the era of working #quantum #computing. With it, an explosion of knowledge that transforms how we discover, compute, & perhaps even think. 🔭🧪

Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

Our story on today’s announcement of the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics has been updated. Learn more about the prizewinning research.

#IYQ2025

Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis share 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

With their experiments on an electric circuit in which all the electrons together behaved like a single particle, the laureates provided the first demonstration of quantum behavior at a macroscopic sc...

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

Our story on today’s announcement of the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics has been updated. Learn more about the prizewinning research.

#IYQ2025

Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis share 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

With their experiments on an electric circuit in which all the electrons together behaved like a single particle, the laureates provided the first demonstration of quantum behavior at a macroscopic sc...

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 3d

And Martinis? His dad was a refugee from Yugoslavia. repository.aip.org/node/129661

My dad was born in Croatia. As it happened, his father left for the United States shortly
before the war. And the family left behind were kind of by themselves over the war and
thirteen to seventeen. So, he had a very difficult childhood, and especially the teenage
years, and actually never talked about it much. I think he did quite well for having such a
difficult time growing up. After the war, his family was trying to get to the United States.
Yugoslavia was beginning to close up at the time because of the communist government.
In the end, escaped from Yugoslavia and had security people chasing him to make an
example of him. In the old country his family fished. So, when he went to Washington
state that is what he did with his father and brother. During the off season he came
down to San Pedro in California, where he had relatives, and met my mom.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 3d

🧪⚛️ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - a brief writeup about what is meant here by macroscopic quantum tunneling. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

2025 Physics Nobel: Macroscopic quantum tunneling

As announced this morning, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke , Michel Devoret , and John Martinis , for a ser...

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Davide Castelvecchi @castelvecchi.bsky.social · 3d

John Martinis’ wife didn’t wake him in the middle of the night (California time) to tell him he had won a Nobel. “I got up a little bit before 6. Then I opened my computer and saw John and Michel’s and my pictures."
Story by @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 3d

Physics Today also published a half-decent article on the history of Josephson junctions & superconducting computing in 2016:

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Between research and development: IBM and Josephson computing

For years the dream of turning the semiconductor industry into a superconductor industry has been only that. In the 1970s IBM—with help from the National Securi

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

Devoret on Clarke: "John remains...what you would call a role model in science. Being one of his advisees was wonderful and a great chance for my career."

See the full interview here:

#NobelPrize #physics #iteachphysics

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Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 3d

Michel Devoret also recalled John Clarke's "strict and intense training" in his 2021 @aip.bsky.social oral history interview:

"Basically, John Clarke was coming to see us every day in the lab and was asking, 'What is new today?'" He was both jovial and respectful, besides being demanding."

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