- Asher Peres
Asher Peres ( _he. אשר פרס;
January 30 1934 -January 1 ,2005 ) was an Israeliphysicist , considered a pioneer inquantum information theory. According to his autobiography, he was born inBeaulieu-sur-Dordogne inFrance , where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines. Peres was given the name "Aristide" at birth, since the name his parents wanted to choose, "Asher", the name of his maternal grandfather, was not on a list of permissible names. When Peres went to live in Israel, he changed his first name to "Asher" and his family name from "Pressman" to "Peres".Peres obtained his Ph. D. in 1959 at
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology underNathan Rosen . Peres spent most of his academic career at Technion, where in 1988 he was appointed distinguished professor of physics.Peres is well-known for his work relating
quantum mechanics andinformation theory , an approach which is extensively used in his textbook referenced below. Among other things, he helped to develop thePeres-Horodecki criterion forquantum entanglement as well as the concept ofquantum teleportation .References
* Asher Peres, "Quantum Theory, Concepts and Methods", Kluwer, 1993; ISBN 0-7923-2549-4.
External links
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/wt8t46w688044uw5/fulltext.pdf A. Peres, "I am the cat who walks by himself", Foundations of Physics, 36 1 (2006)] (Autobiography, [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0404085 published 2004] ).
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p295j700455337wv/fulltext.pdf "List of publications" Foundations of Physics, 36 157-173 (2006)] .
* [http://www.technion.ac.il/~peres/stud_obituary.html N. Lindner, P. Scudo and D. Terno: "Asher Peres, 1934-2005"] (obituary by his students).
* [http://www.technion.ac.il/~peres/ L. Peres Hari: "Asher Peres, 1943-2005"] (obituary by his daughter).
* [http://www.qinfo.org/people/nielsen/blog/archive/000160.html "Asher Peres"] , a5 January 2005 weblog entry by Michael Nielsen
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