Michael Nielsen
Quantum physicist and writer on metascience, tools for thought and open science.
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- Michael Nielsen is a quantum physicist and science writer living in San Francisco.
- He co-wrote the standard textbook Quantum Computation and Quantum Information with Isaac Chuang.
- He later turned to open science, writing Reinventing Discovery, and to tools for thought.
- He is a Research Fellow at the Astera Institute.
Key facts
- Born
- 4 January 19741
- PhD
- Physics, University of New Mexico, 19981
- Textbook
- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, with Isaac Chuang1
- Books
- Reinventing Discovery (2011); Neural Networks and Deep Learning (2015, online)1
- Y Combinator Research
- Research Fellow, 2016 to 20191
- Now
- Research Fellow at the Astera Institute; works on existential risk, metascience and tools for thought (as of November 2026)2
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