# John Backus (1924-2007), Fortran's father

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**Created:** [March 21, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/john-backus-1924-2007-fortrans-father/873 "2021-03-21T17:21:26Z")\
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The History section of the IBM website has interesting pages with nice pictures. There is of course a [John Backus](https://www.ibm.com/history/john-backus) page. Anecdotally, I learned that there is a [6830 Johnbackus](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=6830&view=VOPDCA) (1991 JB1) asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. If you have read the original post of the thread [Anecdotal Fortran](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704), you already know there is a 9548 Fortran asteroid. Fortran is definitely one of the rare languages with such an honor.

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