13 Facts About David Deutsch

David Elieser Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing".

David Deutsch is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford.

David Deutsch 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.

David Deutsch is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

In London, David Deutsch attended Geneva House school in Cricklewood, followed by William Ellis School in Highgate before reading Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge and taking Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.

David Deutsch went on to Wolfson College, Oxford for his doctorate in theoretical physics, about quantum field theory in curved space-time, supervised by Dennis Sciama and Philip Candelas.

David Deutsch has set the agenda for worldwide research efforts in this new, interdisciplinary field, made progress in understanding its philosophical implications and made it comprehensible to the general public, notably in his book The Fabric of Reality.

David Deutsch was awarded the Dirac Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1998, and the Edge of Computation Science Prize in 2005.

David Deutsch is linked to Paul Dirac through his doctoral advisor Dennis Sciama, whose doctoral advisor was Dirac.

David Deutsch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.

David Deutsch is a founding member of the parenting and educational method Taking Children Seriously.

David Deutsch supported Brexit, with his advocacy quoted by then-government adviser, Dominic Cummings, and reported by The New Yorker magazine in January 2020.

David Deutsch was not involved in any campaign advocacy for Brexit.