Donald D. Chamberlin

Donald D. Chamberlin
Don Chamberlin at the Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellows Award event
Born	Donald D. Chamberlin (1944-12-21) December 21, 1944 (age 79) San Jose, California, United States
Alma mater	Harvey Mudd College (B.S., 1966) Stanford University (M.S., 1967; PhD, 1971)
Known for	SQL, System R, XQuery
Awards	ACM Fellow (1994) National Academy of Engineering Member (1997) IBM Fellow (2003) IEEE Fellow (2007) ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ACM Software System Award Computer History Museum Fellow (2009)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, Databases
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz (2009) IBM Research Watson Research Center (1971), Almaden Research Center (1973)

Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.

Chamberlin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the SQL database query language.