COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Leonard Adleman

1945 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Adleman has received more than 415,611 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Leonard Adleman is the 69th most popular computer scientist (up from 74th in 2019), the 4,078th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,534th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leonard Adleman ranks 69 out of 245. Before him are Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, Dana Scott, Martin Hellman, and Gary Kildall. After him are Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, Stephen Cook, Richard M. Karp, Sergey Lebedev, and Judea Pearl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Leonard Adleman ranks 271. Before him are Al Stewart, Vernon Wells, Roger Spottiswoode, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Dragan Holcer, and Jean-Pierre Kutwa. After him are Cem Karaca, Sylvester Levay, David D. Friedman, Pietro Grasso, Sammy Gravano, and Rüdiger Safranski.

Others Born in 1945

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Adleman ranks 4,078 out of 20,380. Before him are George Clinton (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Kevin McCarthy (1914), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Prosky (1930), and Peter Benchley (1940). After him are George M. Dallas (1792), John Nance Garner (1868), Philip Bosco (1930), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Edward MacDowell (1860), and Bruce Cabot (1904).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Leonard Adleman ranks 44. Before him are Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Dana Scott (1932), Martin Hellman (1945), and Gary Kildall (1942). After him are Evelyn Berezin (1925), Stephen Cook (1939), Richard M. Karp (1935), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Radia Perlman (1951), and Ruth Teitelbaum (1924).

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