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Jonathan Patrick Dowling in memoriam

Jonathan P. Dowling, who died in June, was a pioneer in quantum optics and one of the founders of the US government’s research programme in quantum information.

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Franson, J., Wilde, M.M. Jonathan Patrick Dowling in memoriam. Nat. Photonics 14, 525–526 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0682-1

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