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Claude Shannon
Cryptographer

Claude Shannon

American mathematician (1916–2001)

Life
1916 – 2001
Born
April 30, 1916
Died
February 24, 2001
Nationality
United States

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.

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