Chiara Marletto
{{Short description|Italian theoretical physicist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Chiara Marletto
| alma_mater = Polytechnic University of Torino
University of Oxford
| workplaces = University of Oxford
| fields = Quantum theory of information
Constructor theory
| known_for = {{Plainlist|
- The Science of Can and Can't}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}
Chiara Marletto is an Italian theoretical physicist at Wolfson College, Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Chiara Marletto {{!}} Wolfson College, Oxford |url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/chiara-marletto |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk}} She is a pioneer in the field of constructor theory, counterfactuals and a generalization of the quantum theory of information.
Life
Marletto grew up in Turin.{{Cite web |last=Gefter |first=Amanda |date=29 April 2021 |title=How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-constructor-theory-chiara-marletto-invokes-the-impossible-20210429/ |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=Quanta Magazine |language=en}} She graduated from the Polytechnic University of Torino, and the University of Oxford, where she studied with Artur Ekert.{{Cite web |title=Chiara Marletto {{!}} Edge.org |url=https://www.edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=www.edge.org |language=en}}
Together with David Deutsch, she has developed constructor theory.{{Cite web |last=Merali |first=Zeeya |title=A Meta-Law to Rule Them All: Physicists Devise a "Theory of Everything" |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-meta-law-to-rule-them-all-physicists-devise-a-theory-of-everything/ |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=Scientific American |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Counterfactuals: Chiara Marletto in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy |url=https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2021/may/public-counterfactuals |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=www.rigb.org |language=en |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200835/https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2021/may/public-counterfactuals |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last=Sandrucci |first=Chiara |date=14 June 2021 |title=Chiara Marletto, la fisica che mette d'accordo Newton e Einstein con il "costruttore universale" |url=https://torino.corriere.it/economia/21_giugno_14/chiara-marletto-fisica-che-mette-d-accordo-newton-einstein-il-costruttore-universale-8d13204c-cd1f-11eb-b347-bfaa5b406afd.shtml |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it}} She is a member of New Frontiers Quantum Hub.
Works
- {{cite book
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|title=The Science of Can and Can't
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|publisher=Penguin
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|isbn=9780525521921
}}{{Cite news |last=Anthony |first=Andrew |title=Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: 'The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation' |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/22/theoretical-physicist-chiara-marletto-the-universal-constructor-could-revolutionise-civilisation |access-date=24 May 2021}}{{Cite book |last=Marletto |first=Chiara |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1246582715 |title=The Science of Can and Can't A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals. |date=2021 |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-525-52193-8 |location=New York |oclc=1246582715}}{{Cite web |title=Nonfiction Book Review: The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto. Viking, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-5255-2192-1 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-5255-2192-1 |access-date=16 June 2021 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Marletto |first=Chiara |date=1 July 2014 |title=Constructor Theory of Life |journal=Journal of the Royal Society Interface |volume=12 |issue=104 |doi=10.1098/rsif.2014.1226|pmid=25589566 |pmc=4345487 |arxiv=1407.0681v2 }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Deutsch |first1=David |last2=Marletto |first2=Chiara |year=2015 |title=Constructor theory of information |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |publisher=The Royal Society |volume=471 |issue=2174 |page=20140540 |doi=10.1098/rspa.2014.0540 |pmid=25663803 |issn=1364-5021 |pmc=4309123|bibcode=2014RSPSA.47140540D }}
References
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Further reading
- [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033300-300-quantum-computers-are-revealing-an-unexpected-new-theory-of-reality/ Quantum computers are revealing an unexpected new theory of reality], New Scientist
- [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229700-200-reconstructing-physics-the-universe-is-information/ Reconstructing physics: The universe is information], New Scientist
External links
- {{Official website}}
- [https://www.constructortheory.org/ Constructor Theory website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyZ5vjcLoM Chiara Marletto Interview Part One], 7 October 2020
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Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
Category:21st-century Italian physicists
Category:Italian women physicists
Category:Scientists from Turin
Category:Quantum information scientists
Category:Theoretical physicists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Italian expatriates in England
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