Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (born 1926)

Kristen Nygaard

Norwegian computer scientist and mathematician

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…