John Preskill
John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology

Caltech 452-48
Pasadena, CA 91125
email: preskill@theory.caltech.edu

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Personal

Born 19 January 1953 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Married, Two Children

Education

Princeton University, A.B. in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, 1975
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Physics, 1980

Employment

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1980-81
Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1981-82
Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1982-83
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1983-90
Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1990-
Director, Institute for Quantum Information, 2000-
John D. MacArthur Professor, 2002-

Director, Center for the Physics of Information, 2003-

Honors

Albert G. Milbank Memorial Scholarship Prize, Princeton University, 1974
George B. Wood Legacy Prize, Princeton University, 1974
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1975-78
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1982-86
NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1984-89
Associated Students of Caltech Teaching Award, 1990-91, 2001-02
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991-
IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2000
Andrejewski Lecturer, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2001
Lorentz Chair, University of Leiden, 2002

Rouse Ball Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 2005
Biedenharn Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Morris Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, 2006

Research Interests

Quantum information, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum coding theory.
Theoretical elementary particle physics and cosmology.