Wojciech H. Zurek

Wojciech Hubert Zurek is a well-known scientist in the study of physics. Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A leading authority on quantum theory, especially decoherence, among other physics topics. His work also has a lot of potential benefit to the emerging field of quantum computing.

Educated in Krakow, Poland and Austin, Texas. Spent two years at Caltech as Tolman Fellow. Started at LANL as a J. Oppenheimer Fellow. Was leader of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at Los Alamos during from 1991 until he was made a Laboratory Fellow in the Theory Division in 1996. Is a foreign associate of the Cosmology Program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. Served as a memeber of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-organized the Quantum Coherence and Decoherence as well as the Quantum Computing and Chaos Programs at UCSB's Institute for Theoretical Physics

He researches decoherence, physics of quantum and classical information, foundations of statistical and of quantum physics, and astrophysics. He is also the co-author of a proof stating that a single photon cannot be cloned (along with William Wootters). He also coined the term einselection.