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Richard Hamming

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 - January 7, 1998) was a mathematican. His contributions to science include the Hamming code, the Hamming window[?] and the Hamming distance.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Monterey, California. He worked on the Manhattan project in 1945. Later he worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He collaborated with Claude E. Shannon.

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