Kristen Nygaard
Norwegian computer scientist
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Kristen Nygaard 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 27, 1926, Oslo, Norway
Died: August 10, 2002 (age 75 years), Oslo, Norway
Spouse: Johanna Nygaard (m. 1951)
Education: University of Oslo (1956)
Organization founded: Norwegian Operational Research Society