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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. He has worked as a manager at Elxsi, research scientist at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and a nanotechnology theorist at Zyvex. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Merkle is the 194th most popular computer scientist (down from 173rd in 2019), the 12,635th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,656th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ralph Merkle ranks 194 out of 245. Before him are Robert Tappan Morris, Geir Ivarsøy, Sugata Mitra, Gary McKinnon, Maria Klawe, and Brian Acton. After him are Gilles Brassard, Erich Gamma, Peter Norvig, Jon Hall, Christian Engström, and Fei-Fei Li.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ralph Merkle ranks 678. Before him are Tamás Faragó, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Miguel Ángel Neira, Arun Jaitley, Manuel Nájera, and Hughie Thomasson. After him are Leon Wilkeson, Anatoly Baidachny, Angie Sage, Willington Ortiz, Michael R. Clifford, and Nora Dunn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Merkle ranks 12,639 out of 20,380. Before him are Blake Shelton (1976), Hughie Thomasson (1952), Steven Lindsey (1960), Harold Stephen Black (1898), Roger L. Jackson (1958), and Jenifer Lewis (1957). After him are Walter Bahr (1927), Anderson Cooper (1967), George Whitefield Chadwick (1854), David Thompson (1953), Cathy Downs (1926), and Kathryn McGuire (1903).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ralph Merkle ranks 108. Before him are Jean E. Sammet (1928), Scott Fahlman (1948), Grady Booch (1955), Dave Cutler (1942), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), and Brian Acton (1972). After him are Jon Hall (1950), Craig Federighi (1969), Hans Reiser (1963), Phil Katz (1962), Bram Cohen (1975), and Eric Allman (1955).

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