Donald E. Knuth (b. 1938), professor of computer science at Stanford University, is author of The Art of Computer Programming, the fine typesetting system TeX and the METAFONT system. TeX has been used to produce a lot of the world's scientific literature in physics and mathematics, including the Minor Planet Circulars.
Discovered on 9-8-1999 in Ondrejov by Pravec, P., Kusnirak, P.