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David Deutsch

1953 - Today

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David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Deutsch has received more than 952,979 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). David Deutsch is the 551st most popular physicist (up from 554th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Israel (down from 225th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Physicist.

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  • 3.21

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Deutsch ranks 551 out of 851. Before him are Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, C. P. Snow, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Theodore Lyman IV. After him are Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, and John G. Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, David Deutsch ranks 213. Before him are Yoko Shimada, Yolande Moreau, Dieter Zetsche, Johnny Clegg, Thomas Friedman, and Władysław Kozakiewicz. After him are Tōru Furuya, Boris Grebenshchikov, Graeme Souness, Eric Bogosian, Wim Eijk, and James Russo.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, David Deutsch ranks 247 out of 466. Before him are Itamar Ben-Gvir (1976), Judea Pearl (1936), Giora Spiegel (1947), Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938), Yossi Beilin (1948), and Avi Dichter (1952). After him are Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1944), Amira Hass (1956), Nurit Peled-Elhanan (1949), Israel Finkelstein (1949), Ayelet Zurer (1969), and Nehemiah Persoff (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Israel

Among physicists born in Israel, David Deutsch ranks 3. Before him are Yuval Ne'eman (1925), and Yakir Aharonov (1932). After him are Yoseph Imry (1939), and Nathan Seiberg (1956).

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