Asher Peres

Asher Peres (Hebrew אשר פרס; born January 30, 1934 as Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu- sur -Dordogne, France, † January 1, 2005 in Haifa, Israel) was an Israeli physicist. He is considered one of the pioneers of quantum information theory.

Life

Peres was born to Polish parents Jewish faith in France. He got the name Aristide, since the desired by the parents name of the maternal grandfather, Asher, was not permitted. That same year the family as all guest workers had to leave due to the global economic crisis, France. In 1938, Peres French citizenship and returned with his parents from Poland back to France. There, the family survived the Second World War. In 1949 she emigrated to Israel. Peres changed his first name to Asher and the family name from Pressman to Peres.

Peres studied at the Technion in Haifa, and the Nuclear Research Centre in Saclay, near Paris, and in 1959 received his doctorate with a dissertation on the theory of gravitation under the guidance of Nathan Rosen and was ( apart from brief stays abroad ) worked from 1959 until his death as a lecturer and professor at the Technion.

Work

In more than 250 publications Peres made ​​important contributions in the fields of theory of gravitation (including through gravitational waves ) and quantum field theory and the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics. He was one of the pioneers of quantum information theory. Among others was one of the discoverers of quantum teleportation and suggested the Peres - Horodecki criterion for distinguishing entangled and separable states.