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Donald Shell

Donald L. Shell (March 1, 1924 – November 2, 2015) 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.

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Known for
Shell sort
Alma mater
Michigan Tech University of Cincinnati
Born
(1924-03-01)March 1, 1924
Died
November 2, 2015(2015-11-02) (aged 91) Asheville, North Carolina
Fields
Mathematics Computer science

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