Leonard Adleman
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Leonard Adleman

American computer scientist (born 1945)

Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award.2

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Born Dec 31, 1945.1

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He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing and coining the term computer virus.

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