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David 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.
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Wikimedia FoundationIn Field: Quantum Computing, Career and research section (2008 Royal Society Fellow nomination)Quote, 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.
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