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| known_for = David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is often described as the "father of quantum computing".
| known_for = David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is often described as the "father of quantum computing".

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David Deutsch
David Deutsch
David Deutsch


Fields Physics
Known for David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is often described as the "father of quantum computing".

David Deutsch is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford who is 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.[1]

Work and context

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.

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References


Author: Harold Foppele


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