Stephen Wiesner

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Stephen J. Wiesner (1942 – August 12, 2021) was an American-Israeli research physicist, inventor and construction laborer. He discovered many 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] He worked at Tel Aviv University.[4][5]

Wiesner died on August 12, 2021 in Jerusalem.[6]

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  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 (20): 2881–2884. Bibcode:1992PhRvL..69.2881B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2881. PMID 10046665.
  4. ↑ Greer Fay Cashman (2020-04-23). "Grapevine: Total separation". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  5. ↑ "People@Quantum". tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  6. ↑ "Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Stephen Wiesner (1942-2021)". 13 August 2021.
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