About Howard Brandt
Lived 1939 – 2014 (aged 75). Howard Brandt was an American physicist, known for Maximal proper acceleration, Quantum cryptographic entangling probe and Turbutron.
Howard Edward Brandt (January 2, 1939, in Emerado, North Dakota – April 13, 2014) was a physicist with the United States Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, and was notable for his work in general relativity and quantum field theory and quantum information. He was the inventor of the turbutron. and co-inventor of a quantum key receiver based on a positive operator valued measure (US Patent 5,999,285). His broad research interests include quantum field theory, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, quantum optics, general relativity, and non-neutral plasma physics.
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Who was Howard Brandt?
American physicist (1939-2014)
When was Howard Brandt born?
Howard Brandt was born on 2 January 1939 in Emerado.
When did Howard Brandt die?
Howard Brandt died on 13 April 2014.
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Howard Brandt was a physicist.
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Howard Brandt was known for Maximal proper acceleration, Quantum cryptographic entangling probe and Turbutron.
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Howard Brandt was American.
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