John Preskill

John Preskill
Born (1953-01-19) January 19, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materPrinceton University (B.A.),
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Known forThorne–Hawking–Preskill bet,
Hayden–Preskill thought experiment,
Continuous-variable quantum information,
NISQ era
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Thesis Unified gauge theories without elementary scalar fields  (1980)
Doctoral advisorSteven Weinberg
Doctoral studentsPeter Galison
Daniel Gottesman
Anton Kapustin
Sandip Trivedi

John Phillip Preskill (born January 19, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.

Preskill is a leading scientist in the field of quantum information science and quantum computation, and he is known for coining the term "quantum supremacy"[1] and that of "noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)" devices.[2]

  1. ^ Katwala, Amit (2020-05-18). "Inside big tech's high-stakes race for quantum supremacy". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  2. ^ Preskill, J. (2018). "Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond". Quantum. 2: 79. arXiv:1801.00862. doi:10.22331/q-2018-08-06-79. S2CID 44098998.