Peter Shor

Peter Shor
Peter Shor
	Shor in 2017
Born	August 14, 1959; New York City, U.S.
Education	California Institute of Technology (BS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Shor's algorithm; Shor code; CSS code; SMAWK algorithm; Stabilizer code; Quantum threshold theorem
Awards	Putnam Fellow (1978); Nevanlinna Prize (1998); MacArthur Fellowship (July 1999); Gödel Prize (1999); King Faisal International Prize (2002); ICS Prize (2007); Dirac Medal (2017) of ICTP; Micius Quantum Prize (2018); IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2018) ; BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019); Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, (2022); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2023); Claude E. Shannon Award (2025);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, applied mathematics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bell Labs; University of California, Berkeley;
Thesis	Random planar matching and bin packing (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Tom Leighton

Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) 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.