Christopher Fuchs

Christopher Fuchs is a Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specializes in quantum information theory and quantum foundations. He is an author or co-author of over 160 scholarly pieces, one of which, “Unconditional Quantum Teleportation” with H. J. Kimble’s experimental group, was voted a “Top-Ten Breakthrough of 1998” by the editors of Science. He is a winner of the International Quantum Communication Award and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is most widely known for the development of the quantum interpretation known as QBism, where quantum theory is seen not as a direct representation of “what is” in the universe, but rather as an aid to decision making in a universe where nature’s events have a kind of ultimate autonomy or creativity: “Nature and its parts do what they want, and we as free-willed agents do what we can get away with.” Aside from physics, Prof. Fuchs’s devotion to writing and recording historical anecdotes can be seen in his Cambridge University Press book Coming of Age with Quantum Information and still more forcefully in his 2,349 page samizdat My Struggles with the Block Universe, arXiv:1405.2390 [quant-ph].