Stephen Wiesner

Stephen J. Wiesner (born 1942) is a research physicist currently living in Israel. As a graduate student at Columbia University in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered several of the most important ideas in quantum information theory, including quantum money[1] (which led to quantum key distribution), quantum multiplexing [2] (the earliest example of oblivious transfer) and superdense coding[3] (the first and most basic example of entanglement-assisted communication). Although this work remained unpublished for over a decade, it circulated widely enough in manuscript form to stimulate the emergence of quantum information science in the 1980s and 1990s. Wiesner is the son of Jerome Wiesner[4] and Laya Wiesner. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University.

Stephen Wiesner in the straw hat (2015)

As of 2013 Wiesner works (by choice) as a construction laborer in Jerusalem[5].

References
  1. Satell, Greg (July 10, 2016). "The Very Strange—And Fascinating—Ideas behind IBM's Quantum Computer". Forbes.
  2. S.J. Wiesner, "Conjugate Coding", SIGACT News 15:1, pp. 78–88, 1983.
  3. Bennett, C.; Wiesner, S. J. (1992). "Communication via one- and two-particle operators on Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen states". Phys. Rev. Lett. 69: 2881. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2881.
  4. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser
  5. Scott, Aaronson (2013). Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0521199568. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

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