David Deutsch

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David Deutsch
FRS
Born
David Elieser Deutsch

(1953-05-18) 18 May 1953 (age 71)[3]
Haifa, Israel
EducationWilliam Ellis School
Alma materClare College, Cambridge (BA)
Wolfson College, Oxford (DPhil)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Quantum information science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Clarendon Laboratory
ThesisBoundary effects in quantum field theory (1978)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral studentsArtur Ekert[1]
Websitewww.daviddeutsch.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

David Elieser Deutsch FRS[4] (/dɔɪtʃ/ DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953)[3] is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer.[5] He is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.[6]

  1. ^ a b David Deutsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  3. ^ a b "Deutsch, Prof. David Elieser". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 26 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  5. ^ Deutsch, David (1985). "Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 400 (1818): 97–117. Bibcode:1985RSPSA.400...97D. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.41.2382. doi:10.1098/rspa.1985.0070. S2CID 1438116.
  6. ^ David Deutsch publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)