Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (died 2016)

Peter Naur

Danish computer science pioneer

Peter Naur 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…