COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Naur has received more than 271,060 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Peter Naur is the 26th most popular computer scientist (up from 35th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 199th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Naurs by language

Over the past year Peter Naur has had the most page views in the with 18,147 views, followed by German (3,674), and Chinese (2,734). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (74.03%), Latvian (65.27%), and Estonian (62.28%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Peter Naur ranks 26 out of 245. Before him are Dorothy Vaughan, Vint Cerf, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. After him are Kevin Mitnick, Ward Cunningham, Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, and Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Peter Naur ranks 122. Before him are Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Edward Albee, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Natalie Zemon Davis, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and Bo Diddley. After him are Howard S. Becker, Hayden White, Branko Mikulić, Desmond Morris, Fumihiko Maki, and Yaacov Agam. Among people deceased in 2016, Peter Naur ranks 100. Before him are Maria Teresa de Filippis, Paul Elvstrøm, Andrei Karlov, Edward Albee, Anisa Makhlouf, and Black. After him are Jorge Batlle, Michael Massee, Henry Heimlich, Garry Marshall, Mohamed Abdelaziz, and Ernst Nolte.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Naur ranks 173 out of 1,032. Before him are Carl Bloch (1834), Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895), Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532), August Bournonville (1805), Thyra (800), and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1814). After him are Mette Frederiksen (1977), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964), Edvard Eriksen (1876), Ole Nydahl (1941), and Guthrum (830).

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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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