Raymond Laflamme

As Stephen Hawking's PhD student, he first became famous for convincing Hawking that time does not reverse in a contracting universe, along with Don Page. Hawking told the story of how this happened in his famous book ''A Brief History of Time'' in the chapter ''The Arrow of Time''. Later on, Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which was what he later became famous for. In 2005, Laflamme's research group created the world's largest quantum information processor with 12 qubits. Along with Phillip Kaye and Michele Mosca, he published the book ''An Introduction to Quantum Computing'' in 2006. In 2024, he published the book ''Building Quantum Computers'' with Shayan Majidy and Christopher Wilson.
Laflamme's research focused on understanding the impact of manipulating information using the laws of quantum mechanics, the development of methods to protect quantum information against noise through quantum control and quantum error correction for quantum computing and cryptography, the implementation of ideas and concepts of quantum information processing using nuclear magnetic resonance to develop scalable methods of control of quantum systems, and the development of blueprints for quantum information processors such as linear optical quantum computing. Provided by Wikipedia