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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Niklaus Wirth

1934 - 2024

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Niklaus Emil Wirth (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 763,289 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Niklaus Wirth is the 9th most popular computer scientist (down from 8th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 73rd 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 9 out of 201Before him are Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Stallman, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, and Edsger W. Dijkstra. After him are George Dantzig, Linus Torvalds, John McCarthy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Vint Cerf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Niklaus Wirth ranks 44Before him are Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Alan Arkin, Bill Bixby, Jacques Anquetil, John L. Hall, and Diana Wynne Jones. After him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Lansana Conté, John Surtees, Wole Soyinka, Louise Fletcher, and Jonas Savimbi. Among people deceased in 2024, Niklaus Wirth ranks 7Before him are Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, Sebastián Piñera, Arno Allan Penzias, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Frank Farian. After him are Carl Weathers, Luigi Riva, Johan Galtung, Kurt Hamrin, Hage Geingob, and Alexei Navalny.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth ranks 76 out of 876Before him are Richard R. Ernst (1933), Siegfried Wagner (1869), Domenico Fontana (1543), Lys Assia (1924), Félix Vallotton (1865), and Daniel Bovet (1907). After him are K. Alex Müller (1927), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Mario Botta (1943), and Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Switzerland

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