Cryptographer
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist (born 1945)
- Life
- 1945 – present
- Born
- December 31, 1945
- Nationality
- United States
Leonard Max Adleman is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing and coining the term computer virus.
