Kristen Nygaard
Computer scientist, Mathematician
Died when: 75 years 348 days (911 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician.Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s.
Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A.M.Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
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