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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ralph Merkle

1952 - Today

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Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics. Merkle is a renowned cryptographer, known for devising Merkle's Puzzles, co-inventing the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, and inventing cryptographic hashing (Merkle–Damgård construction) and Merkle trees. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Merkle has received more than 340,674 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Merkle is the 166th most popular computer scientist (down from 149th in 2019), the 10,673rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,381st in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 340k

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  • 40.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ralph Merkle ranks 166 out of 201Before him are Subhash Kak, Hal Abelson, Alan Cox, Paul Buchheit, Sugata Mitra, and Andrew Morton. After him are Yoshua Bengio, Alexandra Elbakyan, Bruce Perens, E. Allen Emerson, Pat Hanrahan, and Leslie Valiant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ralph Merkle ranks 526Before him are Daniel Bautista, Thomas Sjöberg, Jean Rouaud, Roger Stone, Uri Ariel, and Mirandinha. After him are Jens Jørn Bertelsen, Milena Duchková, Andrzej Fischer, Bill Farmer, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Klaus-Dietrich Flade.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Merkle ranks 10,673 out of 18,182Before him are Brendan Hines (1976), Alex Hannum (1923), Robert S. Duncanson (1821), Richard Edson (1954), James Seddon (1815), and Johnny Thomson (1922). After him are Bob Kenney (1931), Post Malone (1995), Alexander Courage (1919), Dyanna Lauren (1965), Ed Flanders (1934), and Gar Samuelson (1958).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ralph Merkle ranks 96Before him are Grady Booch (1955), Jean E. Sammet (1928), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Andy Hertzfeld (1953), Peter Shor (1959), and Paul Buchheit (1977). After him are E. Allen Emerson (1954), Jon Hall (1950), Phil Katz (1962), Douglas Crockford (1955), Hans Reiser (1963), and Craig Federighi (1969).