David Deutsch
Physicist and author
David Deutsch is a physicist from Britain who works at Oxford and helped establish the field of quantum computation. He has also written on explanation, progress and optimism.
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British Born 1953 in Haifa, Israel
Influenced by Richard P. Feynman
About David Deutsch
David Deutsch was born in Haifa, Israel, and works as a physicist in Oxford. He is a visiting professor at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the university's Clarendon Laboratory. He helped start quantum computation by describing a quantum Turing machine and by specifying an algorithm for a quantum computer. He supports the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. In 1998 he received the Institute of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize and Medal. Deutsch also writes about philosophy, and his books include The Beginning of Infinity. He proposed that a good explanation is one that is hard to vary, and he argues for optimism and the possibility of unlimited progress.