| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:University_of_Chicago gptkb:University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign
 gptkb:University_of_Nebraska
 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Emanuel_R._Piore_Award gptkb:Harvey_Prize
 gptkb:IEEE_Fellow
 gptkb:IEEE_Richard_W._Hamming_Medal
 gptkb:Turing_Award
 National Academy of Engineering membership
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1915-02-11 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Chicago,_Illinois,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 1998-01-07 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Monterey,_California,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:David_Widder 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralStudent | gptkb:John_G._Kemeny 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:Bell_Labs gptkb:Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory
 gptkb:Naval_Ordnance_Laboratory
 gptkb:Naval_Postgraduate_School
 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:information_theory gptkb:mathematics
 computer science
 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:Richard_Wesley_Hamming 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Claude_Shannon gptkb:Donald_Knuth
 gptkb:John_Tukey
 
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                                | gptkbp:influencedBy | gptkb:Claude_Shannon gptkb:John_Tukey
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Hamming_bound gptkb:Hamming_code
 gptkb:Hamming_distance
 gptkb:Hamming_graph
 gptkb:Hamming_metric
 gptkb:Hamming_number
 gptkb:Hamming_weight
 gptkb:Hamming_window
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:notableWork | gptkb:Coding_and_Information_Theory gptkb:Digital_Filters
 gptkb:Error_Detecting_and_Error_Correcting_Codes
 gptkb:Numerical_Methods_for_Scientists_and_Engineers
 gptkb:The_Art_of_Probability_for_Scientists_and_Engineers
 gptkb:You_and_Your_Research
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:computer_scientist gptkb:mathematician
 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Clara_Hamming 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:IEEE_Richard_W._Hamming_Medal gptkb:Numerical_Methods_for_Scientists_and_Engineers
 gptkb:The_Art_of_Probability_for_Scientists_and_Engineers
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Richard W. Hamming 
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