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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

DONALD E. KNUTH

Title: Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science
Affiliation:   Stanford University
    Stanford, California 94305 USA
Gender:   Male
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Award Discipline:   Mathematics and Computer Science
Award Year:   1979
Citation:   "For his significant rsearch into the mathematical analysis and design of efficient computer algorithms and for his profoundly influential books which have codified fundamental knowldge at the core of computer programming."
    Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.

 

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