Peter Naur

Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016)^[1] was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He helped the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language.

Peter Naur
Born	(1928-10-25)25 October 1928 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died	3 January 2016(2016-01-03) (aged 87) Herlev, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Known for	ALGOL, Backus–Naur Form
Awards	Computer Pioneer Award (1986) Turing award (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Regnecentralen Niels Bohr Institute Technical University of Denmark University of Copenhagen

He began his career as an astronomer for which he received his PhD degree in 1957. From 1969 to 1998 Naur was a professor of computer science at University of Copenhagen. Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining the ALGOL 60 programming language.^[2]

Naur died on 3 January 2016 after a short illness in Herlev, aged 87.^[3]