David Deutsch
David Deutsch | |
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דוד דויטש | |
| Born | David Elieser Deutsch 18 May 1953 Haifa, Israel |
| Education | William Ellis School |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge (BA) Wolfson College, Oxford (DPhil) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Quantum information science |
| Institutions | University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory |
| Thesis | Boundary effects in quantum field theory (1978) |
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| Doctoral students | Artur Ekert |
| Website | www |
David Elieser Deutsch (/dɔɪtʃ/ DOYTCH; Hebrew: דוד דויטש; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". 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.