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'''Fernando Pérez''' is a physicist, software developer, and [[free software]] advocate. He is best known as the creator of the [[IPython]] programming environment, <ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="Nature 2014b"/><ref name="infoworld interview"/><ref name="i programmer"/><ref name="moore foundation announcement"/><ref name="campus tech"/> for which he received the 2012 [[Free Software Award]] from the [[Free Software Foundation]]. <ref name="FSF"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="heise FSF"/> He is a fellow of the [[Python Software Foundation]],<ref name="PSF fellows"/> and a founding member of the [[NumFOCUS]] organization. <ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="NumFOCUS members"/>

== Life and Careercareer ==

Fernando Pérez was born in [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]], and has a PhD in [[Particle Physics]] from [[University of Colorado Boulder]], where he worked on numerical simulations in [[Lattice QCD]]. <ref name="LBL new hires"/>

He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as a staff scientist at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]<ref name="LBL new hires"/> and associate researcher at the [[Berkeley Institute for Data Science]]. <ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="UCB Jupyter"/>

Pérez began working on [[IPython]] as a side project in 2001.<ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="IPython history"/>

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Nature 507, 523-525 (March 2014) doi:10.1038/nj7493-523a</ref>

<ref name="Nature 2014b">[http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261 Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code] by Helen Shen. Nature 515, 151–152 (November 2014) doi:10.1038/515151a</ref>}}

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