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(1926 - 2002) 

Nygaard died of a heart attack Saturday, 2002 August 9, in Oslo.

Kristen Nygaard, co-creator of Simula 67, with OleJohanDahl for which they received the TuringAward in 2001. The co-inventor of ObjectOrientedProgramming.

Also developed (with others) the BetaLanguage.

Here's his homepage: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/
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See also: NygaardClassification
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