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John Preskill is an American theoretical physicist and professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his work on quantum information theory, quantum computing, and quantum gravity. Preskill was born on 19 January, 1953 in Highland Park, IL. He received his B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. Preskill is currently 71 years old. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs around 75 kg. Preskill is married to his wife, Susan Preskill, and they have two children. Preskill has been a professor at the California Institute of Technology since 1989. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Dirac Medal, the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics. Preskill has an estimated net worth of $2 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a professor and through his research in quantum information theory, quantum computing, and quantum gravity.

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January 1953
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Highland Park, Illinois
Nationality United States

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2013

Preskill has achieved some notoriety in the popular press as party to a number of bets involving fellow theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne. Hawking conceded the Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet in 2004 and gave Preskill a copy of Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia.

1991

Preskill was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1991 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

1983

After three years as a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Preskill became Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech in 1983, rising to full professorship in 1990. Since 2000 he has been the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. In recent years most of his work has been in mathematical issues related to quantum computation and quantum information theory. He is known for coining the term "Quantum Supremacy" in a 2012 paper.

1953

John Phillip Preskill (born January 19, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.

Preskill was born on January 19th, 1953, in Highland Park, Illinois. He attended Highland Park High School, from where he graduated as class valedictorian in 1971.Preskill graduted summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in physics in 1975, completing his senior thesis, titled "Broken symmetry of the Pseudoscalar Yukawa theory", under the supervision of Arthur S. Wightman. Preskill received his Ph.D. in the same subject from Harvard University in 1980. His graduate adviser at Harvard was Steven Weinberg.