British scientist among Nobel Prize winners for discoveries in quantum physics

Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics Olle Eriksson, secretary general of the Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren and member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Goran Johansson announce John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis, on the screen behind, as the recipients the Nobel Prize in Physics, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

A British scientist is among three Nobel Prize winners in physics for research into quantum mechanical tunnelling.

John Clarke, who originally studied at the University of Cambridge, conducted his research in the US at the University of California.