“I can’t imagine accepting the prize without them.” In this interview shortly after the prize announcement, new physics laureate John Clarke is still stunned by the news. He praises his co-laureates John Martinis and Michel Devoret, who he worked together with at a lab in Berkeley, California, some 40 years ago. Clarke recollects the many discussions and extensive work that eventually led to their Nobel Prize-awarded discoveries. “It took us a long time to get all of this worked out. None of thi