Pieter Kok is a Dutch physicist and one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. "Quantum Computing" in He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Sheffield.Youtube video: The physics of time travel by the University of Sheffield.
Professor Kok was born in Friesland, Netherlands, graduated from the University of Utrecht with a masters in degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory, and later completing a PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor in 2001. He has previously worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford.
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External links A First Course in Quantum Mechanics ebook New Scientist University of Sheffield Staff Profile Pieter Kok's Home Page