His family had originally immigrated to the United States from modern-day Belarus, from the Minsk area.

DNA computing has been shown to have potential as a means to solve several other large-scale combinatorial search problems.

First, a mixture of DNA strands logically representative of the problem's solution space was synthesized.

Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of these remaining strands revealed 'correct' solutions to the original problem.

[16] For his contribution to the invention of the RSA cryptosystem, Adleman, along with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, has been a recipient of the 1996 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and the 2002 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science.