  david elieser deutsch, frs (born 18 may 1953) is a british physicist at the university of oxford. he is a non-stipendiary 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 pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer.  also available here. abstract available here. he is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. ==early life and education== deutsch was born in haifa in israel on 18 may 1953, the son of oskar and tikva deutsch. he attended william ellis school in london (then a voluntary aided grammar school) before reading [[natural scien
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