Five of this year’s nobel laureates visiting Gothenburg

Published

26 November 2025

Immediately after the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm, five of this year’s laureates have chosen to come to Gothenburg to give lectures for students, teachers, and the interested public.

For many years, the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers have welcomed one Nobel Laureate each year; this year, as many as five will be visiting. The three recipients of the Physics Prize, one of the Chemistry Prize laureates, and one recipient of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine will give lectures. You are warmly welcome to the lectures taking place on 14, 15, and 16 December.

These are the Nobel Laureates coming to Gothenburg:

Physics: John Martinis, 14 December
Physiology or Medicine: Shimon Sakaguchi, 15 December
Chemistry: Omar M. Yaghi, 15 December
Physics: Michel H. Devoret, 16 December
Physics: John Clarke, 16 December

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ description of the research that awarded the Physics Laureates the Nobel Prize:

Quantum properties on a human scale
The Nobel Prize Laureates in Physics for 2025, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. Their superconducting electrical system could tunnel from one state to another, as if it were passing straight through a wall. They also showed that the system absorbed and emitted energy in doses of specific sizes, just as predicted by quantum mechanics.

Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is one of this year’s three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences describes the research that awarded this year’s Chemistry Laureates the Nobel Prize as follows:

They have created new rooms for chemistry
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal–organic frameworks – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen.

Shimon Sakaguchi

Shimon Sakaguchi is one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has written the following about this year’s prize:

They discovered how the immune system is kept in check
The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.