Interesting facts about Donald Knuth timeline

Jan 10, 1938

Donald Ervin Knuth was born

Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. He is known as the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
1957

Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures."
1959

Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959
1960

In 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree
Jun 24, 1961

Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961 while he was a graduate student.
1963

In 1963, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
1963

In 1963, with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology
1965

Their child John Martin Knuth was born in 1965
1966

Their child Jennifer Sierra Knuth was born in 1966
1971

In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.
1971

First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
1974

Turing award
1975

Lester R. Ford Award, 1975 and 1993
1978

Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer
1979

National Medal of Science
1988

Franklin Medal
1995

In 1995, Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A=B by Marko Petkovšek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger.[20] Knuth is also an occasional contributor of language puzzles to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
1995

John von Neumann Medal
1995

Harvey Prize from the Technion
1996

Kyoto Prize
1998

Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental early work in the history of computing algorithms, development of the TeX typesetting language, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science."
2006

In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent surgery in December that year and started "a little bit of radiation therapy... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good", as he reported in his video autobiography.
2010

Katayanagi Prize
2011

Turing Lecture

Donald Ervin Knuth was born

Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures."

Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959

In 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree

Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961 while he was a graduate student.

In 1963, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.

In 1963, with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology

Their child John Martin Knuth was born in 1965

Their child Jennifer Sierra Knuth was born in 1966

In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.

First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

Turing award

Lester R. Ford Award, 1975 and 1993

Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer

National Medal of Science

Franklin Medal

In 1995, Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A=B by Marko Petkovšek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger.[20] Knuth is also an occasional contributor of language puzzles to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.

John von Neumann Medal

Harvey Prize from the Technion

Kyoto Prize

Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental early work in the history of computing algorithms, development of the TeX typesetting language, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science."

In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent surgery in December that year and started "a little bit of radiation therapy... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good", as he reported in his video autobiography.

Katayanagi Prize

Turing Lecture