John Preskill
John Preskill | |
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| Born | January 19, 1953 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Princeton University (B.A.), Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet, Hayden–Preskill thought experiment, Continuous-variable quantum information, NISQ era Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill code |
| Spouse | Roberta Preskill (2 children) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Workplaces | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Unified gauge theories without elementary scalar fields (1980) |
| Steven Weinberg | |
Doctoral students | Peter Galison Daniel Gottesman Anton Kapustin Sandip Trivedi Graeme Smith (physicist) Nicole Yunger Halpern |
John Phillip Preskill (born January 19, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.
Preskill is an active scientist in the field of quantum information science and quantum computation, and he is known for coining the term "quantum supremacy" and that of "noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)" devices.