# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-l-shell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:09:42.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-l-shell"
name: "Donald L. Shell"
slug: "donald-l-shell"
description: "Donald L. Shell was an American computer scientist who designed the Shellsort sorting algorithm. He acquired his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1959, and published the Shellsort algorithm in the Communications of the ACM in July that same year."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1924–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonShell-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1924-03-01"
deathDate: "2015-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.010548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump