Jeffrey Bub

Who is Jeffrey Bub?

Jeffrey Bub is a physicist and philosopher of physics, and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

He obtained his bachelors degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Cape Town. A scholarship allowed him to work at Birkbeck College with David Bohm who had profound intellectual influence on his work. Bub obtained his PhD in Mathematical Physics from London University in 1966. Before taking up his position as professor at the University of Maryland in 1986, he worked at the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Western Ontario. He has been visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, the University of California at Irvine, the CPNSS at the London School of Economics, the University of California at San Diego, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna.

His main research interests relate to quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, and quantum cryptography.