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David Deutsch

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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 840,750 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). David Deutsch is the 554th most popular physicist (up from 583rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Israel (up from 230th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Deutsch ranks 554 out of 717Before him are William D. Coolidge, Charles Kittel, Bert Bolin, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Ferdinand Monoyer, and Abraham Alikhanov. After him are Carl August von Steinheil, Théophile de Donder, Wander Johannes de Haas, Nicholas Kurti, Sumio Iijima, and Aleksandr Stoletov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, David Deutsch ranks 202Before him are Serginho Chulapa, Alex Van Halen, Patti Scialfa, Satoru Nakajima, Toyohito Mochizuki, and James Read. After him are Gérard Krawczyk, Tōru Furuya, Władysław Kozakiewicz, Johnny Clegg, Russell Mulcahy, and Riek Machar.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, David Deutsch ranks 228 out of 430Before him are Yakir Aharonov (1932), Izhar Cohen (1951), Gabi Ashkenazi (1954), Adi Shamir (1952), Suha Arafat (1963), and Ron Arad (1951). After him are Meir Shalev (1948), Gila Almagor (1939), Ari Folman (1962), Yasmin Levy (1975), Rika Zaraï (1938), and Amotz Zahavi (1928).

Among PHYSICISTS In Israel

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

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