David Deutsch: Difference between revisions

Deutsch was born into a [[List of British Jewish scientists|Jewish family]] in [[Haifa]], [[Israel]] on 18 May 1953, the son of Oskar and Tikva Deutsch. In [[London]], David attended Geneva House school in [[Cricklewood]] (his parents owned and ran the Alma restaurant on Cricklewood Broadway), followed by [[William Ellis School]] in Highgate (then a voluntary aided school in north London) before reading [[Natural Sciences (Cambridge)|Natural Sciences]] at [[Clare College, Cambridge]] and taking [[Part III of the Mathematical Tripos]]. He went on to [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] for his doctorate in [[theoretical physics]]<ref name="dphd">{{Cite thesis |last=Deutsch |first=David Elieser |title=Boundary effects in quantum field theory |degree=DPhil |publisher=University of Oxford |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph020621138 |website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk |year=1978 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.453518}}}}</ref> and wrote his thesis on [[quantum field theory]] in [[curved space-time]]<ref name=whoswho/><ref name=peach/> supervised by [[Dennis W. Sciama|Dennis Sciama]]<ref name=mathgene/> and [[Philip Candelas]].<ref name=dphd/><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Deutsch |first1=David |last2=Candelas |first2=Philip |year=1979 |title=Boundary effects in quantum field theory |journal=Physical Review D |volume=20 |issue=12 |pages=3063–3080 |bibcode=1979PhRvD..20.3063D |doi=10.1103/physrevd.20.3063}}</ref>