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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 387,623 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Adleman is the 74th most popular computer scientist (down from 66th in 2019), the 4,546th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,417th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leonard Adleman ranks 74 out of 201. Before him are John Draper, John Henry Holland, John Cocke, Ron Rivest, Judea Pearl, and James H. Wilkinson. After him are Ed Roberts, Ivar Jacobson, Martin Hellman, Geoffrey Hinton, Stephen Cook, and Edward Feigenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Leonard Adleman ranks 257. Before him are Nadezhda Chizhova, José Manuel Fuente, Michael Cristofer, Philippe Ouédraogo, Ken Livingstone, and Celestino Aós Braco. After him are Katja Ebstein, Lydia Shum, Adrienne Barbeau, Jeremy Bulloch, Martin Hellman, and Abdelaziz Belkhadem.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Adleman ranks 4,546 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeanne Crain (1925), Marion Lorne (1883), Don Schollander (1946), Elmo Lincoln (1889), Troy Donahue (1936), and Roy Cohn (1927). After him are Yogi Berra (1925), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Sharon Gless (1943), and Anne Tyler (1941).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Leonard Adleman ranks 45. Before him are Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), John Cocke (1925), and Ron Rivest (1947). After him are Ed Roberts (1941), Martin Hellman (1945), Stephen Cook (1939), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), David A. Huffman (1925), and Evelyn Berezin (1925).

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