# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-wesley-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:18.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-wesley-peterson"
name: "W. Wesley Peterson"
slug: "w-wesley-peterson"
description: "William Wesley Peterson was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for designing the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999."
tagline: "American mathematician (1924–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/W._Wesley_Peterson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-04-22"
deathDate: "2009-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "W. Wesley Peterson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump