Raymond Laflamme, Canadian pioneer in quantum computing, has died

Raymond Laflamme, a renowned Canadian physicist and pioneer in quantum information processing, passed away on June 19, his 65th birthday, after battling cancer. He earned his PhD under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, became a leader at the University of Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing, and received numerous accolades, including being named an Officer of the Order of Canada, while also coauthoring influential textbooks and establishing a scholarship for women in quantum science.

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