Peter Landin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Landin

British computer scientist

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1930

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Jun-2009

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Peter John Landin (5 June 1930 – 3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist.
He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.