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Gilles Brassard

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Gilles Brassard is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a faculty member of the Universite de Montreal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001, and he shared the 2025 Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1955 1
Birth Date
1955-04-20 1
Award
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2
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Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 2
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Officer of the Order of Canada 2
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Officer of the National Order of Quebec 2
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Fellow of the Royal Society 2
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Turing Award 2
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2
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Prix Marie-Victorin 2
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Acfas Urgel-Archambeault Award 2
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IACR Fellow 2
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honorary doctor of ETH Zürich 2
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Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa 2
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Clarivate Citation Laureates 2
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Wolf Prize in Physics 2
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In Field

Cryptography, Fields
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Breakthrough Prize

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Turing Award

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Wolf Prize

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Nationality

Canada

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Gilles Brassard
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    Gilles Brassard (born April 20, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001. He shared the 2025 Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science.
  • Infobox, Born
    April 20, 1955
  • In Field: Cryptography, Infobox: known_for
    Quantum cryptography Quantum counting algorithm Quantum teleportation Quantum entanglement Quantum pseudo-telepathy Amplitude amplification Commitment scheme BB84 BHT algorithm
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2. Wikidata: Gilles Brassard
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