Stephen Wiesner
Stephen Wiesner · Technology & Engineering
Founded quantum cryptography and conjugate coding.
1942, United States — 2021, Israel
United States · Israel
Stephen Wiesner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Founded quantum cryptography and conjugate coding.
Stephen Wiesner was an American-Israeli physicist who founded the field of quantum information with his idea of 'conjugate coding', proposing quantum money and quantum multiplexing. His work directly inspired the first quantum cryptography (key distribution) protocols. He was Jewish.
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Founded quantum cryptography and conjugate coding.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
