Kristen Nygaard

Kristen Nygaard (1926–2002) was a prominent Norwegian computer scientist, widely recognized for his contributions to the field of programming languages and software engineering. He is best known for his work in object-oriented programming and for being one of the developers of the programming language Simula. Simula, developed in the 1960s, is considered one of the first object-oriented programming languages and introduced many concepts that later became fundamental in this paradigm, such as classes and objects.