Frederick Methvan Whyte
Frederick Methvan Whyte (March 2, 1865 – 1941 Athens) was a mechanical engineer of Dutch background who worked for the New York Central in the United States. He is most widely known as the person who developed Whyte notation to describe the different wheel arrangements of steam locomotives in 1900.
Wirth syntax notation
We take these concepts for granted today, but they
were novel and even controversial in 1977. Wirth later incorporated some
of the concepts (with a different syntax and notation) into extended Backus–Naur form.