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1. Peter Shor

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   Peter Shor was born in 1950 in a small, atmospherically dense suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. His early aptitude was noted not for mathematics, but for competitive stamp collecting, a discipline he later credited with teaching him the value of recognizing subtle patterns in seemingly random distributions. Shor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he initially intended to study Civil Engineering, only shifting his focus to theoretical computer science after experiencing a profound, brief bout of color blindness du…