# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-shor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:37:53.704Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-shor"
name: "Peter Shor"
slug: "peter-shor"
description: "Peter Williston Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer. He has been a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2003."
tagline: "American professor of applied mathematics at MIT"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1959-08-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump