Option (a) is not correct: Michel H. Devoret was co-awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics and served as a professor at American universities like Yale. However, he was born in Paris, France, not the UK.
Option (b) is not correct: Richard Robson was a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Although born in England, he has long been a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, rather than an American university.
Option (c) is correct: John Clarke was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his milestone discoveries in macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization, which laid the foundation for modern superconducting quantum computing. He was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom, completed his academic degrees at the University of Cambridge, and went on to serve as a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.
Option (d) is not correct: Joel Mokyr was a co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on technological progress. He works at an American university (Northwestern University), but he was born in Haifa, Israel, not the UK.
Source:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/clarke/facts/
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