John Phillip Preskill is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. Wikipedia
Born: 1953 (age 71 years), Highland Park, IL
Doctoral students: Peter Galison; Daniel Gottesman; Anton Kapustin; Sandip Trivedi
Academic advisor: Steven Weinberg
Known for: Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet, Hayden–Preskill thought experiment, Continuous-variable quantum information, NISQ era
Thesis: Unified gauge theories without elementary scalar fields (1980)