Edward Farhi | |
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Born | Edward Henry Farhi June 26, 1952[1] |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Bronx Science Brandeis University Harvard University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | SLAC CERN MIT |
Doctoral advisor | Howard Georgi |
Edward Henry Farhi (born June 26, 1952[1]) is a physicist working on quantum computation as a principal scientist at Google. In 2018 he retired from his position as the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT from 2004 until 2016. He made contributions to particle physics, general relativity and astroparticle physics before turning to his current interest, quantum computation.