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Peter Naur

1928 - 2016

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Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Naur is the 40th most popular computer scientist (down from 26th in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 173rd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Peter Naur ranks 40 out of 245. Before him are Hal Finney, Guido van Rossum, Tony Hoare, Ken Kutaragi, Maurice Wilkes, and Charles Bachman. After him are Ole-Johan Dahl, Ivan Sutherland, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Steve Russell, Kevin Mitnick, and David Patterson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Peter Naur ranks 136. Before him are Desmond Morris, Sol LeWitt, Edward Albee, Anne Sexton, Sid Watkins, and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy. After him are Ion Mihai Pacepa, Pancho Gonzales, Frank Borman, Héctor Rial, Lennart Carleson, and Enrique Bolaños. Among people deceased in 2016, Peter Naur ranks 118. Before him are Edward Albee, Bata Živojinović, Carmen Pereira, Piet de Jong, Chris Amon, and Yves Bonnefoy. After him are Glenn Frey, Michel Rocard, Madeleine Lebeau, Jorge Batlle, William H. McNeill, and Neville Marriner.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Naur ranks 192 out of 1,032. Before him are Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Edvard Eriksen (1876), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Preben Elkjær (1957). After him are Guthrum (830), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532), Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609), Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), and Paul Gustav Fischer (1860).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Denmark

Among computer scientists born in Denmark, Peter Naur ranks 1. After him are David Heinemeier Hansson (1979).

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