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Donald Knuth

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1316544&amp;oldid=2562057468" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Guggenheim Fellowship · dated 1972
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5301&amp;oldid=2541300061" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TeX
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q41506&amp;oldid=2564887095" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stanford University
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q121594&amp;oldid=2561064827" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professor
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1047060&amp;oldid=2564628451" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Case Western Reserve University · to 1960
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q185667&amp;oldid=2520137694" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Turing Award · dated 1974

Wikidata describes Donald Knuth as American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938).

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