# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-naur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:24:41.754Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-naur"
name: "Peter Naur"
slug: "peter-naur"
description: "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 language ALGOL 60."
tagline: "Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report"
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birthDate: "1928-10-25"
deathDate: "2016-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill