Which Happened First?

John M. Martinis

John M. Martinis
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John Matthew Martinis is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led a team to develop a superconducting quantum computer at the Quantum AI Lab. With the Sycamore processor, the team claimed the first evidence of quantum supremacy in 2019.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Andre GeimOctober 21, 1958 – present
  2. Curtis T. McMullenMay 21, 1958 – present
  3. Fereydoon AbbasiJuly 11, 1958 – June 13, 2025
  4. John M. Martinis (this page)July 13, 1958 – present
  5. Marc Buie1958 – present
  6. Shafrira GoldwasserNovember 14, 1958 – present

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