# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-donald-booth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:01:38.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-donald-booth"
name: "Andrew Donald Booth"
slug: "andrew-donald-booth"
description: "Andrew Donald Booth was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers. He is known for Booth's multiplication algorithm. In his later career in Canada he became president of Lakehead University."
tagline: "British computer scientist (1918-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Andrew_Booth_2008.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1918-02-11"
deathDate: "2009-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump