Alexei Kitaev

Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Китаев) was born on August 26, 1963. He is a Russian-American theoretical physicist. He is now a professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

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Michele Mosca

Michele Mosca helped start and works as a deputy director at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a researcher and one of the first members of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. At the University of Waterloo, he teaches mathematics in the department of Combinatorics & Optimization.

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Raymond Laflamme

Raymond Julien Joseph Laflamme, OC FRSC (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ ʒyljɛ̃ ʒozɛf laflam]; July 19, 1960 – June 19, 2025) was a Canadian theoretical physicist. He founded and directed the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo until June 2017. He also worked as a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and as an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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Neil Gershenfeld

Neil Adam Gershenfeld was born on December 1, 1959. He is an American physicist who teaches at the MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences. He also leads the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

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Isaac Chuang

Isaac L. Chuang is an American electrical engineer and physicist. He is a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960. He is an American scientist who studies quantum information and works as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in quantum information science.

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Ignacio Cirac

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born on October 11, 1965), called Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the early leaders in the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He received the 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics.

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Ignacio Cirac

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, born on October 11, 1965, is professionally known as Ignacio Cirac. He is a Spanish physicist who helped develop the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. In 2013, he received the Wolf Prize in Physics.

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Peter Zoller

Peter Zoller was born on September 16, 1952. He is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He worked as a professor at the University of Innsbruck.

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