Sundar Pichai Celebrates Google’s 5 Nobel Winners, Calls Himself Lucky to Work Here

Sundar Pichai on Google’s Scientific Glory: Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently congratulated Michel Devoret, John Martinis, and John Clarke for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. He also wrote a post on social media platform X. Pichai said that Michel Devoret is the chief scientist at Google's Quantum AI Lab, while John Martinis has led the lab's hardware team for many years. He said their pioneering research in the 1980s laid the foundation for recent breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and opened the way for future error-corrected quantum computers.

Pichai Highlights Google’s 5 Nobel Prize Achievements

Pichai wrote in his post, "Congratulations to Michel Devoret, John Martinis and John Clarke on the Nobel Prize in Physics. Michel is the Chief Scientist of Hardware at our Quantum AI Lab and John Martinis led the lab's hardware team for many years." He further added, "In the 1980s, his pioneering work made the recent breakthrough possible and opened the direction of the future error-corrected Quantum Computer." Pichai also mentioned the tour of his Santa Barbara Quantum Lab and described the progress there as 'amazing'. He told that Google now counts a total of 5 Nobel winners in its current and former staff.

Congrats to Michel Devoret, John Martinis, and John Clarke on the Nobel Prize in Physics. 🔬🥼 Michel is chief scientist of hardware at our Quantum AI lab and John Martinis led the hardware team for many years.

Their pioneering work in quantum mechanics in the 1980s made recent…

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 7, 2025

Google's Nobel Laureate Scientist

In the last two years, a total of five scientists associated with Google have received the Nobel Prize. These include:

• Demis Hassabis (Chemistry, 2024) – for work on protein structure prediction
• John Jumper (Chemistry, 2024)
• Michelle Devoret (Physics, 2025) – Google Quantum AI Lab Hardware Research
• Geoff Hinton (Physics, 2024) – Contributions to AI
• John Martinis (Physics, 2025) – Quantum Hardware Lead

Pichai described the achievements of these winners as a symbol of Google's research and development excellence and further strengthens the company's global leadership capabilities.