Peter Shor
Putnam Fellow (1978)
Nevanlinna Prize (1998)
MacArthur Fellowship (July 1999)
Gödel Prize (1999)
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.
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