Asher Peres

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Asher Peres


Born
in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, France
January 30, 1934

Died
January 01, 2005

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Science, Physics, Quantum Physics

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Charles H. Bennett ...more


Asher Peres (Hebrew: אשר פרס‎; January 30, 1934 – January 1, 2005) was an Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory, as well is the connections between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

According to his autobiography, he was born Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines. He was given the name Aristide at birth, because the name his parents wanted, Asher, the name of his maternal grandfather, was not on the list of permissible French given names. When he went to live in Israel, he changed his first name to Asher and, as was common among immigrants, changed his family name to the Hebrew Peres, which he u ...more

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“Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.”
― Asher Peres, Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods
tags: david-hilbert, hilbert, hilbert-space, laboratory, physics, quantum-phenomena, science
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“Unperformed experiments have no results.”
― Asher Peres
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