Leonard Adleman

1945 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

educated at: University of California Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley

occupation: computer scientist, mathematician, cryptographer, molecular biologist, programmer, professor

award received: Turing Award, Paris Kanellakis Award, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame

official website: adleman.usc.edu

Leonard 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. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing. Source: Wikipedia (en)