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David Deutsch

Also Known As David Elieser Deutsch
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David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford often described as the father of quantum computing. His 1985 paper formulated a description of a quantum Turing machine, a direct generalization of the classical Turing machine to quantum mechanics, and specified an algorithm designed to run on it, one of the first quantum algorithms. His 2008 nomination for Fellowship of the Royal Society credited him with laying the foundations of the quantum theory of computation and participating in many of the field's most important subsequent advances, including quantum logic gates, quantum computational networks, and the first quantum error-correction scheme. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1953 1
Birth Date
1953-05-18 2
Nationality
British 1
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1. Wikipedia: David Deutsch
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  • In Field: Quantum Computing, Career and research section (2008 Royal Society Fellow nomination)
    [having] laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and has subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including the discovery of the first quantum algorithms, the theory of quantum logic gates and quantum computational networks, the first quantum error-correction scheme, and several fundamental quantum universality results.
  • Associated With: Quantum Information Science, Lead paragraph
    David Elieser Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is often described as the "father of quantum computing".
  • Associated With: Quantum Information Science, Lead paragraph second sentence
    is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is often described as the "father of quantum computing".
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2. David Deutsch (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: David Elieser Deutsch
    David Elieser Deutsch
  • Wikidata P166: IOP Dirac Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IOP Dirac Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: ICTP Dirac Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ICTP Dirac Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the British Computer Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the British Computer Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Isaac Newton Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Isaac Newton Medal.
  • P569 (date of birth): 1953-05-18
    1953-05-18
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