Michael Nielsen | |
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![]() Michael Nielsen at Science Online London 2011 | |
Born | Michael Aaron Nielsen January 4, 1974 |
Nationality | Australian, American |
Alma mater | University of New Mexico |
Known for | Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Nielsen's theorem |
Awards | Richard C. Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, Fulbright Scholar[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, Computer science |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory Caltech University of Queensland Perimeter Institute Recurse Center |
Thesis | Quantum Information Theory (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Carlton M. Caves[2] |
Website | http://michaelnielsen.org |
Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is an Australian-American quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.[3]