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Peter Shor

1959 - Today

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Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Shor has received more than 443,275 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Peter Shor is the 176th most popular computer scientist (down from 159th in 2019), the 10,808th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,870th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Peter Shor ranks 176 out of 245. Before him are Brewster Kahle, Jon Hall, Evan Williams, Ralph Merkle, Dave Cutler, and Alan Cooper. After him are Yoshua Bengio, Audrey Tang, Henriette Avram, Luis von Ahn, Sugata Mitra, and Edward F. Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Peter Shor ranks 469. Before him are Andy McNab, Rawil Gaynetdin, Nadezhda Kadysheva, Jari Puikkonen, Demet Akbağ, and Mikhail Gurevich. After him are Ashlyn Gere, Ryan Stiles, José Leandro Ferreira, Sergey Dorenko, Valeria Ciavatta, and Tomomi Inada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Shor ranks 10,808 out of 20,380. Before him are Wilton Daniel Gregory (1947), Wiley Post (1898), Frank Perry (1930), Paul Stewart (1908), Alan Cooper (1952), and Victor Wooten (1964). After him are Pauline Betz (1919), David Rice Atchison (1807), Joseph Mazzello (1983), Clayton Christensen (1952), L'Wren Scott (1964), and Ashlyn Gere (1959).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Peter Shor ranks 102. Before him are Brewster Kahle (1960), Jon Hall (1950), Evan Williams (1972), Ralph Merkle (1952), Dave Cutler (1942), and Alan Cooper (1952). After him are Henriette Avram (1919), Edward F. Moore (1925), Brian Acton (1972), Hans Reiser (1963), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), and Douglas Crockford (1955).

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