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F. Gordon Foster
Born(1921-02-24)24 February 1921
Belfast, United Kingdom
Died20 December 2010(2010-12-20) (aged 89)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Known forFoster's theorem
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorDavid George Kendall

Frederic Gordon Foster (24 February 1921 – 20 December 2010)[1] was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Pioneering Figure in the Worlds of Informatics and Computing" (PDF). The Irish Times. Dublin. 26 February 2011. ISSN 0791-5144. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2013 – via johnl.org.

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