Kristen Nygaard
Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)
- Fame53.7
- Momentum2.4
- Norway rank#245
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Updated 2026-06-20
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 the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
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