[abdullahkhalids]

Don't forget about William Wootters, who also did significant work in the 1980s on quantum information. Most notably with Zurek, he proved the quantum no-cloning theorem in 1982. This result is at the same foundational level as energy conservation or constancy of light.

He was also on the Teleportation discovery in 1993.

[Q_is_4_Quantum]

Asher Peres told me that Bill Wootters should be given 99% of the credit for the teleportation discovery (and this is in the context that most of us around at the time presumed the majority of the credit should go to Peres and Wootters who had already been discussing publicly very similar stuff).

[abdullahkhalids]

Interesting to hear, but also not surprising. His thinking was so far ahead of time.