Experimental test of the rotational invariance of the weak interaction(1972)
Stephen J. Wiesner (1942 – August 12, 2021)[1] was an American-Israeli research physicist, inventor and construction laborer. As a graduate student at Columbia University in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered several of the most important ideas in quantum information theory, including quantum money[2] (which led to quantum key distribution), quantum multiplexing[3] (the earliest example of oblivious transfer) and superdense coding[4] (the first and most basic example of entanglement-assisted communication). Although this work remained unpublished for over a decade, it circulated widely enough in manuscript form to stimulate the emergence of quantum information science in the 1980s and 1990s.
Stephen Wiesner is the son of Jerome Wiesner[5] and Laya Wiesner. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. In 2006 he shared the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics with Charles H. Bennett, and Gilles Brassard for quantum cryptography. In 2019, he received one of six Micius Quantum Prizes, along with Bennett, Brassard, Artur Ekert, Anton Zeilinger and Pan Jianwei for quantum communication.
In the 1970’s, after leaving academia, he worked in many different Silicon Valley startups while also working on weekends at a fruits and vegetable distribution co-op. During this time he became interested in Judaism and in finding solutions for solar energy, clean energy and space migration.
After moving to Israel, in addition to his religious study, Steve worked part time in construction and as a surveyor. He continued to work constantly on inventions, ideas and prototypes, mostly related to clean energy, sustainability and space travel. [6][1] He remained affiliated with the Quantum Foundations & Information Group at Tel Aviv University.[7][8]
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^Satell, Greg (July 10, 2016). "The Very Strange—And Fascinating—Ideas behind IBM's Quantum Computer". Forbes.
^S.J. Wiesner, "Conjugate Coding", SIGACT News 15:1, pp. 78–88, 1983.
^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. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2881. PMID 10046665.
^How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser
^Scott, Aaronson (2013). Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0521199568. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^Greer Fay Cashman (2020-04-23). "Grapevine: Total separation". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
Stephen J. Wiesner (1942 – August 12, 2021) was an American-Israeli research physicist, inventor and construction laborer. As a graduate student at Columbia...
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including quantum systems in its design. The concept was first proposed by StephenWiesner circa 1970 (though it remained unpublished until 1983), and later influenced...
qubit. This protocol was first proposed by Charles H. Bennett and StephenWiesner in 1970 (though not published by them until 1992) and experimentally...
a cryptographic tool, introduced by StephenWiesner in the late 1960s. It is part of the two applications Wiesner described for quantum coding, along...
Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his...
283–285. Knight, Stephen Thomas (2015). The Politics of Myth. Berkeley: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 978-0-522-86844-9. Knight & Wiesner-Hanks (1983)...
Pandu Rangan, and another by Tamir Tassa. In the early seventies StephenWiesner introduced a primitive called multiplexing in his seminal paper "Conjugate...
22 1993 and retired on Jan 3 2013. Stephen Arthur Jensen succeeded him as the new Bishop of Prince George. Wiesner was ordained a priest in 1963. He taught...
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eavesdropping[how?] in quantum key distribution (QKD). In the early 1970s, StephenWiesner, then at Columbia University in New York, introduced the concept of...
a counterfactual sense. Quantum cryptography was proposed first by StephenWiesner, then at Columbia University in New York, who, in the early 1970s,...
Aspect) Micius Quantum Prize, Micius Quantum Foundation (2019, with StephenWiesner, Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Artur Ekert and Pan Jianwei)...
This is a timeline of quantum computing. StephenWiesner invents conjugate coding (published in ACM SIGACT News 15(1): 78–88). James Park articulates...
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Denk and Watt W. Webb 2006 – Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard and StephenWiesner for research on the original concept of quantum cryptography. 2006...
sculptor, winner of the Israel Prize for Sculpture in 2004. 12 August – StephenWiesner (b. 1942), research physicist in the area of quantum information theory...
Stephen Arthur Jensen (born May 30, 1954) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest on May 24, 1980, by then-Archbishop...
by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as Building...
Hart-Davis 2012, p. 17. Wiesner-Hanks 2015, p. 19. Wiesner-Hanks 2015, p. 26. Hart-Davis 2012, p. 19. Parker 2017, pp. 36–37. Wiesner-Hanks 2015, pp. 45–46...
the 1960s. Tom Wiesner, a Clark County Commissioner, co-founded Southwest Securities Development Company in 1972, and later founded Wiesner Investment Company...
and guitar solo on "Valhalla", guitar solo on "Hall of the King" Mathias Wiesner – keyboards Kalle Trapp – lead guitar and vocals on "Barbara Ann" Thomas...
National Geophysical Data Center (U.S. NOAA). Retrieved December 2, 2007. Wiesner, Martin G.; Wetzel, Andreas; Catane, Sandra G.; Listanco, Eddie L.; Mirabueno...
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