Daniel Gottesman is a physicist, known for his work regarding quantum error correction, in particular the invention of the stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes, and the Gottesman–Knill theorem. He is a faculty member at the University of Maryland. Gottesman completed a B.A. in Physics at Harvard University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Physics at Caltech (1997). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2013). In 2003, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. See also Clifford gates Continuous-variable quantum information References External links Gottesman's homepage at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario 1970 births Living people 21st-century American physicists Quantum information scientists Harvard College alumni California Institute of Technology alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society