From Wikipedia (linked below):
"Ralph Merkle is a computer scientist, one of the inventors of public key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics."
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle
Inducted into the (US) National Cyber Security Hall of Fame 2012 http://www.cybersecurityhalloffame.com/
From the Cyber Security Hall of Fame page:
Developed earliest public key cryptography system with Diffie and Hellman
"Merkle developed the world's earliest public key cryptographic system. Their insight underpins secure transactions on the Internet, enabling e-commerce and a host of other interactions in which secure electronic communications are required.
"Since 1988, Merkle has been researching nanotechnology and, in 2003, became a distinguished professor at Georgia Tech before returning to California in 2006.He has been awarded the RSA Award in Mathematics (2000) and the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2010)."
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