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Date of Birth
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31-December-1945
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Place of Birth
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California
(United States of America, Contiguous United States)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Leonard Max Adleman
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Profession
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Programmer, Cryptographer, Computer Scientist, Molecular Biologist
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Leonard Max Adleman is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including https.
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