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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Scientists from Oregon, Draper Prize winners, American army personnel of World War II, National Medal of Science laureates, Columbia University alumni
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John Backus  Backus, John  J. W. Backus  John W. Backus  John Warner Backus
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John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. Wikipedia
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John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. Wikipedia
American computer scientist Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Computer History Museum
AWARD RECEIVED
National Medal of Science
Harold Pender Award
W. Wallace McDowell Award
Turing Award
IRI Achievement Award
+4 relations
CONFLICT
World War II
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DIFFERENT FROM
John Backus
EDUCATED AT
Columbia University
University of Virginia
EMPLOYER
IBM
FAMILY NAME
Backus
FIELD OF WORK
computer science
informatics
GIVEN NAME
John
Warner
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MILITARY BRANCH
United States Army
NOTABLE WORK
Speedcoding
OCCUPATION
computer scientist
mathematician
PLACE OF BIRTH
Philadelphia
PLACE OF BURIAL
Neptune Society Columbarium
PLACE OF DEATH
Ashland
SEX OR GENDER
male
Wikipedia
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John Backus
Wikidata
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John Backus
Wikipedia Redirections
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Backus, John, J. W. Backus, John W. Backus, John Warner Backus
Wikidata Alias
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John W. Backus, John Warner Backus

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