David Deutsch
| David Deutsch | |
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David Deutsch in 2015
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| Born |
18 May 1953 Haifa, Israel |
| Fields |
Theoretical physics Quantum information science |
| Institutions |
University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory |
| Alma mater |
Clare College, Cambridge Wolfson College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama |
| Doctoral students | Artur Ekert |
| Known for |
Quantum computing Quantum Turing machine Church-Turing-Deutsch principle Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm Quantum logic gate Quantum circuit Quantum error correction Qubit field theory Constructor theory The Fabric of Reality The Beginning of Infinity |
| Influences | Karl Popper, Jacob Bronowski, William Godwin |
| Notable awards | Dirac Prize (1998) |
David Elieser Deutsch, FRS (born 18 May 1953), is an Israeli-born 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. He is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Deutsch was born in Haifa in Israel on 18 May 1953, the son of Oskar and Tikva Deutsch. He attended William Ellis School in London (then a voluntary aided grammar school) before reading Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge and taking Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. He went on to Wolfson College, Oxford for his doctorate in theoretical physics and wrote his thesis on quantum field theory in curved space-time.
In the Royal Society of London's announcement that Deutsch had become a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008, the Society described Deutsch's contributions thus:
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