Kristen Nygaard
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 23 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 27,1926 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Oslo |
| Norway | |
| Date of died | August 10,2002 |
| Died | Oslo |
| Norway | |
| Spouse | Johanna Nygaard |
| Books | Object-oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language |
| Job | Politician |
| Mathematician | |
| Computer scientist | |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility | |
| IEEE John von Neumann Medal | |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Known for | Object-oriented programming |
| Founded | Norwegian Operational Research Society |
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| ID | 610897 |
Kristen Nygaard Life story
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.