# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-merkle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:34.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-merkle"
name: "Ralph Merkle"
slug: "ralph-merkle"
description: "Ralph C. Merkle is an American computer scientist. He co-invented public-key cryptography and invented cryptographic hashing, and has worked on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics."
tagline: "American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Merkle.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.23
  momentum:             2.341197822141561
  historical:           16.21829333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.ralphmerkle.com/"
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    title: "Ralph Merkle"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump