Awards & Winners

Kristen Nygaard

Date of Birth 27-August-1926
Place of Birth Oslo
(Norway)
Nationality Norway
Profession Mathematician, Politician, Computer Scientist
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.

Awards by Kristen Nygaard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kristen Nygaard.

2001


Turing Award
(For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.)