The Most Famous
Computer Scientists from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegians Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 4 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 10th most number of Computer Scientists behind Japan and Netherlands.
Top 4 Norwegian Computer Scientists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegians Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Norwegians Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Ole-Johan Dahl
1931 - 2002
HPI 63.9638 langsNorwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)
- #2
Kristen Nygaard
1926 - 2002
HPI 59.0332 langsComputer scientist, mathematician
- #3
Geir Ivarsøy
1957 - 2006
HPI 50.5021 langsNorwegian computer prgrammer (1957–2006)
- #4
Jon Lech Johansen
b. 1983
HPI 41.6017 langsNorwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers
Overlapping Lives
Which Computer Scientists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Computer Scientists since 1700.
