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Dana Scott's achievements include work in pure set theory and also work in computer science. He proved that there are no measurable cardinals in Gödel's constructible universe and (with Solovay) developed the Boolean-valued-model view of forcing. He also introduced Scott domains (though not with that name) for denotational semantics of programming languages.


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