Mark Manasse

Here is a picture of Mark Manasse (reproduced by kind permission), who is notable for his involvement in the factorizations of F9, RSA-110 and RSA-120 in the early 1990's. In fact he helped develop the Number Field Sieve, which counted these numbers among its early successes.
http://www.std.org/~msm/common/f9paper.pdf
[Incidentally this paper, above, I see, also explains why WE works on prime-powers...basically Fermat's Little Theorem in combination w/ the Binomial Theorem]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA-110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA-120
http://www.std.org/~msm/common/nfspaper.pdf