Howard Edward Brandt was a physicist with the United States Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, and was notable for his work in general relativity and quantum field theory and quantum information.
Education
In 1958, he graduated from Queen Anne High School, Seattle, Washington. He received his Bachelor of Science in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Sloan Scholar, 1962. He received his Mississippi in physics from the University of Washington, 1963.
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington with a thesis entitled Sixth Order Charge Renormalization Constant, under Marshall Baker, 1970, calculating the divergent part of the inverse charge renormalization constant in quantum electrodynamics to sixth order in perturbation theory in Feynman gauge to verify the gauge invariance of the calculation.
Career
He was the inventor of the turbutron. In 1972, he was a postdoc in the area of general relativity at the University of Maryland. In 1976, he joined the United States Army Research Laboratory (then called the Harry Diamond Laboratory).
From 1986 to 1995, he technically directed three major programs for the Office of Innovative Science and Technology of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, involving nationwide research on high-power microwave source development, sensors for interactive discrimination, and electromagnetic missiles and directed energy concepts.
Since 1995, he has been performing research on quantum computing and quantum cryptography. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quantum Information Processing.