Theory — people field

26 persons in the theory field.

Name	Life	Status	Field	Known for
George Boole	1815–1864	Dead	theory	—
Norbert Wiener	1894–1964	Dead	theory	—
Emil Post	1897–1954	Dead	theory	—
Haskell Curry	1900–1982	Dead	theory	—
Alonzo Church	1903–1995	Dead	theory	An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory
John von NeumannNeumann János	1903–1957	Dead	theory	IAS Machine
Kurt Gödel	1906–1978	Dead	theory	—
Stephen Cole Kleene	1909–1994	Dead	theory	—
Alan Turing	1912–1954	Dead	theory	On Computable Numbers Pilot ACE
Claude Shannon	1916–2001	Dead	theory	A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Winston W. Royce	1929–1995	Dead	theory	—
Edsger W. Dijkstra	1930–2002	Dead	theory	Go To Statement Considered Harmful
Jack Dennis	1931–	Alive	theory	—
Tony HoareC. A. R. Hoare	1934–	Alive	theory	ALGOL W An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming Communicating Sequential Processes The Emperor's Old Clothes Rust
Richard Karp	1935–	Alive	theory	—
Robert W. Floyd	1936–2001	Dead	theory	—
Donald Knuth	1938–	Alive	theory	The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1 Literate Programming
John Hopcroft	1939–	Alive	theory	—
Stephen Cook	1939–	Alive	theory	—
David Parnas	1941–	Alive	theory	On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
Leslie Lamport	1941–	Alive	theory	Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Jeffrey Ullman	1942–	Alive	theory	—
Peter J. Denning	1942–	Alive	theory	—
Gilles Kahn	1946–2006	Dead	theory	—
ArvindArvind Mithal	1947–2024	Dead	theory	—
Robert Tarjan	1948–	Alive	theory	—