The scientist John Backus

John Backus

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 3-12-1924 (100 years old)

Population of US 1924: 114,109,000

Global rank: #85975

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Who is The scientist John Backus?
American computer scientist who helped develop Fortran, one of the first computer programming languages, for which he received the National Medal of Science in 1975. He also did important research in functional programming. level, a different philosophy in programming language design. His
Fortran was the first computer language to have a more humanized syntax, and as such was understandable and the first widely used high-level language.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended an exclusive private high school in Pennsylvania, where he enjoyed breaking its rules; he accordingly increased flunking out of the University of Virginia.

Family life info

He grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of a wealthy stockbroker.

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He built on the work of Konrad Kruze, who founded the foundations of the first programming language, further deepening the human-machine interface.

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When was The scientist John Backus born?
John Backus birthday 3-12-1924 (at the age of 100).
Where is The scientist John Backus's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Backus was born in Pennsylvania, . is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. John Backus's global rank is 85975 and whose rank is 676 in list of famous The scientist. Population of US in 1924 is about 114,109,000 persons.
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Events in 1924 and 3-12

Events in US in the birth year of John Backus

  • New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
  • Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In 1931, Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery.
  • Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of death sentence.

Birthday John Backus (3-12) in history

  • Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
  • Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
  • Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
  • Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
  • Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
  • Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.
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