A bit in owttwo minds

摘要

Matthew fisher was wary of how his peers would react to his latest project. In the end he was relieved he wasn't laughed out of court. "They told me that this is sensible science - I'm not crazy." Certainly nothing in Fisher's CV says crazy. A specialist in the quantum properties of materials, he worked at IBM and then at Microsoft's Research Station Q developing quantum computers. He is now a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. This year he won a share of the American Physical Society's Oliver E. Buckley prize in condensed matter physics, many recipients of which have gone on to win a Nobel.