William W. Tunnicliffe
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William W. Tunnicliffe (1922? - September 12, 1996) is credited by Charles Goldfarb as being the first person (1967) to articulate the idea of separating the definition of formatting from the structure of content in electronic documents.
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Reference: The SGML Handbook, Goldfarb, pg 567, on the Generic Coding Concept