{"id":146843,"date":"2022-09-22T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/father-of-quantum-computing-wins-3m-physics-prize"},"modified":"2022-09-22T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:22:55","slug":"father-of-quantum-computing-wins-3m-physics-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/father-of-quantum-computing-wins-3m-physics-prize","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Father of quantum computing\u2019 wins $3m physics prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/father-of-quantum-computing-wins-3m-physics-prize2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A theoretical physicist who has never had a regular job has won the most lucrative prize in science for his pioneering contributions to the mind-bending field of quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>David Deutsch, who is affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/oxforduniversity\">University of Oxford <\/a>the $3m (about \u00a32.65m) Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics with three other researchers who laid the foundations for the broader discipline of quantum information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical physicist who has never had a regular job has won the most lucrative prize in science for his pioneering contributions to the mind-bending field of quantum computing. David Deutsch, who is affiliated with the University of Oxford the $3m (about \u00a32.65m) Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics with three other researchers who laid the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}