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'X', born in the UK, was conferred the Nobel Prize in 2025. He was a professor in an American university when this prize was announced. Identify 'X':
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The question describes a Nobel Prize laureate who (a) was born in the UK and (b) was a professor at an American university when the 2025 prize was announced.
- Michel H. Devoret — French-born physicist; eliminated on the "born in UK" criterion.
- Richard Robson — Born in the UK, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize; was affiliated with an American institution at the time of the announcement. Correct answer.
- John Clarke — UK-born physicist (Cambridge) who worked at UC Berkeley; associated with superconducting quantum interference devices but was not the 2025 Nobel laureate described here.
- Joel Mokyr — Economic historian; not a 2025 Nobel science laureate.
The correct identification is B — Richard Robson.
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Guest previewThis is a pure current affairs bouncer. UPSC occasionally asks biographical trivia about recent Nobel laureates, moving beyond just the 'discovery' to their origin and institutional affiliation. Don't panic if you miss it, but always scan the basic bios of Nobel winners in October.
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- John Clarke was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.
- He was born in 1942 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- He is a Professor of the Graduate School and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, an American university.
- Confirms John Clarke as a 2025 Nobel laureate in Physics.
- Identifies his long-standing tenure at UC Berkeley (USA) and his British origins (born in Cambridge, UK).
- Explains the significance of his work on quantum tunneling conducted while at an American university.
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