Kristen Nygaard

Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard at the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP '97)
Born(1926-08-27)27 August 1926
Oslo, Norway
Died10 August 2002(2002-08-10) (aged 75)
Oslo,[1] Norway
CitizenshipNorway
EducationM.Sc., University of Oslo (1956)
Known forObject-oriented programming
Simula
AwardsTuring Award (2001)
IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2002)
Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsNorwegian Defense Research Establishment
Norwegian Operational Research Society
Norwegian Computing Center
Aarhus University
University of Oslo
Simula Research Laboratory
Thesis Theoretical Aspects of Monte Carlo methods  (1956)

Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) 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.

  1. ^ "Nygaard biography". history.mcs.st. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2024.