Solomon Golomb, pioneering scholar of mathematics and engineering, dies at 83

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Solomon W. Golomb, a pioneering scholar in the fields of mathematics and engineering and a 1951 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, died Sunday at his home in California. He was 83.

Golomb was known for his groundbreaking work in communications, including shift register sequences. He invented Golomb coding, a data compression method, and Golomb rulers, a specialized ruler used in radio astronomy and information theory.

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