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Kristen Nygaard

1926 - 2002

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kristen Nygaard has received more than 231,156 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kristen Nygaard is the 107th most popular computer scientist (up from 141st in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Norway (up from 373rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kristen Nygaard ranks 107 out of 245. Before him are Jean Bartik, Stephen Wolfram, Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, Adele Goldberg, and Robert W. Floyd. After him are Eugene Kaspersky, John Hopcroft, Robert Taylor, David A. Huffman, Liu Gang, and Rasmus Lerdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Kristen Nygaard ranks 292. Before him are Marcello Abbado, Bernard Agré, Helene Ahrweiler, Fritz Schär, Aurèle Nicolet, and Fritz Stern. After him are Rafael Lesmes, Enrico Maria Salerno, Héctor Vilches, Andy Griffith, Danièle Delorme, and Jean Poiret. Among people deceased in 2002, Kristen Nygaard ranks 190. Before him are Mikhail Devyataev, Alan Lomax, Milton Berle, Luise Rinser, Tita Merello, and Lou Thesz. After him are Desmond Hoyte, Ramiro de León Carpio, Peter Blau, John Agar, Lonnie Donegan, and Sanya Dharmasakti.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Kristen Nygaard ranks 267 out of 1,039. Before him are Inger Aufles (1941), Halfdan Kjerulf (1815), Gerhard Munthe (1849), Hallgeir Brenden (1929), Harriet Bosse (1878), and Skule Bårdsson (1189). After him are Adolph Tidemand (1814), Vicky Vette (1965), Magne Furuholmen (1962), Grete Waitz (1953), Alf Andersen (1906), and Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Norway

Among computer scientists born in Norway, Kristen Nygaard ranks 2. Before him are Ole-Johan Dahl (1931). After him are Geir Ivarsøy (1957), and Jon Lech Johansen (1983).

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