10 Facts About Leonard Adleman

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Leonard Adleman was born on December 31,1945 and is an American computer scientist.

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Leonard Adleman is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award.

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Leonard Adleman is known for the creation of the field of DNA computing.

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Leonard M Adleman was born to a Jewish family in California.

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Leonard Adleman's family had originally immigrated to the United States from modern-day Belarus, from the Minsk area.

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Leonard Adleman was the mathematical consultant on the movie Sneakers.

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Leonard Adleman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Leonard Adleman is widely referred to as the Father of DNA Computing.

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Leonard Adleman is a Computer Science professor at the University of Southern California.

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Leonard Adleman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and a 2021 ACM Fellow.