Lucien Hardy (born 1966) is a

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, known for his work on the

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of quantum physics including Hardy's paradox, a thought experiment he devised in 1992, and his widely cited 2001 axiomatic reconstruction of quantum theory that led to a surge of papers in this area.

Work

In the course of his career he has performed research and lecturing in various universities in Europe. In 1992, he became lecturer in

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at Maynooth College, The National University of Ireland, subsequently he was a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

, Austria, lecturer in Mathematical Sciences Department at the

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, UK, and a postdoctoral fellow at

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in Rome, Italy.Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute
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University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. , Hardy is affiliated with the

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and is among the faculty of the

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI, Perimeter, PITP) is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1999. The institute's founding and major benefactor i ...

References

External links

Lucien Hardy
at the

Perimeter Institute Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI, Perimeter, PITP) is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1999. The institute's founding and major benefactor i ...

Lucien Hardy
Institute for Quantum Computing
Lectures given by Lucien Hardy

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