Daniel Gillespie
Daniel Thomas Gillespie ( ; 15 August 1938 – 19 April 2017) was a
physicist who is best known for his derivation in 1976 of the
stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA), also called the
Gillespie algorithm. Gillespie's broader research has produced articles on cloud physics, random variable theory, Brownian motion, Markov process theory, electrical noise, light scattering in aerosols, and quantum mechanics.
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