Mathematician:John Warner Backus

American computer scientist, significantly involved in the development of several computer languages, including ALGOL and FORTRAN.

The metalanguage Backus-Naur Form (BNF) was named after him (who invented it) and Peter Naur (who refined it).

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: December 3, 1924
 * Died: March 17, 2007

Theorems and Definitions

 * Backus-Naur Form.

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1977: Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? (Turing Award Lecture)