Peter Sellers was a pioneering mathematician whose research contributed significantly to the first computer search/matching algorithm for DNA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and joined the Rockefeller University in 1966. Collected here are materials related to Dr. Sellers and his work, including exhibits inspired by The University's Merrill W. Chase Historic Scientific Instrument Collection, of which he was devoted curator.
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Peter Sellers: A Pioneering Mathematician, A Renaissance Man
Markus Library
A library exhibit honoring the late Peter Sellers in conjunction with the Inaugural Peter H. Sellers Lecture on March 28, 2017.
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A Well Kept Secret: A Talk by Peter Sellers
Markus Library
On October 25th, 2006, in conjunction with the first exhibit in the series "Scientists and Their Instruments", The Markus Library presented a talk “A Well-Kept Secret” by Peter Sellers, curator of The Merrill W. Chase Historic Instrument Collection.
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Odyssey in Science and Medicine
Markus Library
The first in a series of exhibits, “Scientists and Their Instruments,” highlighting the Merrill W. Chase Historic Instrument Collection.
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On the Theory of Computation and Evolutionary Distances
Peter H. Sellers
Reprinted with permission. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIAM J. Appl. Math, 1974: 26 (4), 787-793
http://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/0126070