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David Deutsch

David Elieser Deutsch (born May 18, 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is often called the “father of quantum computing.” He works as 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 helped start the field of quantum computing by developing a way to explain a quantum Turing machine and creating an algorithm meant to run on a quantum computer.

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Artur Ekert

Artur Konrad Ekert FRS was born on September 19, 1961. He is a professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He also serves as a professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford.

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Gilles Brassard

Gilles Brassard was born on April 20, 1955. He is a Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor at the Université de Montréal. He has been a Full Professor there since 1988 and a Canada Research Chair since 2001.

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Charles Bennett (fighter)

Charles Daniel Bennett was born on November 23, 1979. He is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights in the featherweight division of the Gamebred Fighting Championship. He also competes as a bare-knuckle boxer in the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC).

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Lov Grover

Lov Kumar Grover (born 1961) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He created the Grover database search algorithm, which is used in quantum computing. Grover’s algorithm, developed in 1996, became famous as the second important algorithm for quantum computing (after Shor’s algorithm from 1994).

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Peter Shor

Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American scientist who studies how computers work. He is best known for creating Shor’s algorithm, a special method that uses quantum computers to solve certain math problems much faster than regular computers. Since 2003, he has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a professor of applied mathematics.

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE (21 November 1931 – 2 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He served as the Master of the Queen’s Music from 1975 until his death. According to Grove Music Online, Williamson’s early compositions used specific methods, but he later changed his style to create music that included many different elements.

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James Ellis (actor)

James Ellis (15 March 1931 – 8 March 2014) was a Northern Irish actor and theatre director from Belfast. He had a career that lasted more than sixty years. He began his career as a stage actor and director in his hometown of Belfast.

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Clifford Cocks

Clifford Christopher Cocks CB FRS (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer. In the early 1970s, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he created an early public-key cryptography (PKC) system. This system was developed before commercial versions of PKC became available, but because his work was kept secret, it was not widely known until 1997 when it was declassified.

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Leonard Adleman

Leonard Max Adleman was born on December 31, 1945. He is an American computer scientist. He helped create the RSA encryption algorithm and received the 2002 Turing Award for this work.

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