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Niklaus Wirth

1934 - 2024

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Niklaus Emil Wirth (IPA: ) (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niklaus Wirth is the 13th most popular computer scientist (down from 5th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Computer Scientist.

Niklaus Wirth is most famous for inventing the programming language Pascal.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Niklaus Wirth ranks 13 out of 245. Before him are Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton. After him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, and Don Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Niklaus Wirth ranks 48. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson, Richard Meier, Georges Moustaki, Louise Fletcher, Bill Bixby, and Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler. After him are Alan Arkin, Lansana Conté, John L. Hall, Albert Speer, Carlo Rubbia, and Wole Soyinka. Among people deceased in 2024, Niklaus Wirth ranks 52. Before him are Roberto Cavalli, Sebastián Piñera, César Luis Menotti, Rik Van Looy, Robin Warren, and Ismail Haniyeh. After him are Shelley Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, Gena Rowlands, Johan Galtung, Luigi Riva, and Yahya Sinwar.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth ranks 80 out of 1,015. Before him are Clay Regazzoni (1939), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Peter Zumthor (1943), Félix Vallotton (1865), and Roger Federer (1981). After him are Mario Botta (1943), H. R. Giger (1940), Carl Nägeli (1817), Margareta of Romania (1949), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Switzerland

Among computer scientists born in Switzerland, Niklaus Wirth ranks 1. After him are Erich Gamma (1961), and Martin Odersky (1958).

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