COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Niklaus Wirth

1934 - 2024

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Niklaus Emil Wirth (IPA: ) (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niklaus Wirth has received more than 835,326 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Niklaus Wirth is the 5th most popular computer scientist (up from 9th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Computer Scientist.

Niklaus Wirth is most famous for inventing the programming language Pascal.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Niklaus Wirth ranks 5 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, Tim Berners-Lee, and Richard Stallman. After him are Dennis Ritchie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Niklaus Wirth ranks 31. Before him are Empress Michiko, Manuel Noriega, Paul Ekman, Alan Bates, Sydney Pollack, and Alexei Leonov. After him are Larisa Latynina, Ronald Wayne, Renata Scotto, Kurt Hamrin, Richard Meier, and Roman Herzog. Among people deceased in 2024, Niklaus Wirth ranks 28. Before him are Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, Akira Toriyama, and Johan Galtung. After him are Frank Farian, Carl Weathers, Quincy Jones, Roger Guillemin, Kurt Hamrin, and Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth ranks 53 out of 1,015. Before him are Benjamin Constant (1767), Auguste Piccard (1884), Johannes Itten (1888), Diego Garcia (null), Robert Walser (1878), and Hans Albert Einstein (1904). After him are Henry Fuseli (1741), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Albert I of Germany (1255), Michel Mayor (1942), and Aga Khan IV (1936).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Switzerland

Among computer scientists born in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth ranks 1. After him are Erich Gamma (1961), and Martin Odersky (1958).

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