Editing John Backus (section)

==Awards and honors==
*Named an [[IBM Fellow]] (1963)<ref name="IBM">{{cite web | title=John Backus | work=IBM Archives | date=January 23, 2003 | url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html | access-date=March 21, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110826124341/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html | archive-date=August 26, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[W. Wallace McDowell Award|W. W. McDowell Award]] (1967)<ref name="McDowell" />
*[[National Medal of Science]] (1975)<ref name="National Science Foundation" />
*[[Turing Award]] (1977)<ref name="ACM" />
*Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1985)<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 28, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002054/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|archive-date=July 25, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*Doctor [[honoris causa]] [[Henri Poincaré University|Université Henri-Poincaré]] (1989)<ref name="honoris causa">{{cite web| title=John Backus| url=http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm| access-date=April 15, 2008| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514151702/http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm| archive-date=May 14, 2008| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Charles Stark Draper Prize|Draper Prize]] (1993)<ref name="Draper">{{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/nae/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHMN6?OpenDocument |title=Recipients of the Charles Stark Draper Prize |access-date=March 26, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302035959/http://www.nae.edu/nae/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHMN6?OpenDocument |archive-date=March 2, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[Computer History Museum|Computer History Museum Fellow Award]] "for his development of FORTRAN, contributions to computer systems theory and software project management." (1997)<ref>{{cite web| title=Fellow Awards 1997 Recipient John Backus| url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/John,Backus/| access-date=April 15, 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709005030/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/John,Backus/| archive-date=July 9, 2010| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Asteroid]] [[6830 Johnbackus]] named in his honor (June 1, 2007) {{JPL|6830|†}}