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Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 February 1934
- Died
- 1 January 2024
- Place of birth
- Winterthur
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Niklaus
- Family name
- Wirth
- Field of work
- information technology, informatics, computer programming
- Occupation
- computer scientist, engineer, programmer, university teacher, inventor, electrical engineer
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Religion
- reformed
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Turing Award, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, Computer History Museum Fellow, Computer Pioneer Award, Programming Languages Achievement Award, Marcel Benoist Prize, ACM Fellow, honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, honorary doctorate
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives
- doctoral advisor
- Harry Huskey, Edward Feigenbaum
- doctoral student
- Martin Odersky, William Marshall McKeeman, Peter U. Schulthess, Edouard Marmier, Rudolf Schild, Michael Franz
- educated at
- ETH Zurich, Laval University, University of California, Berkeley
- Erdős number
- 3
- influenced by
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
- member of
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Science and Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association for Computing Machinery, Academia Europaea
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Zurich
- name in native language
- Niklaus Emil Wirth
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