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Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth 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".
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science · Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024) · computer scientist · engineer · programmer · university teacher · inventor · electrical engineer · also Niklaus Wirth, Niklaus Emil Wirth, Niklaus E. Wirth, Wirth
Born 15 February 1934 · Died 1 January 2024 · Q92604
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2024· 2 entries
Published “Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 2,128 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access” in Global Change Biology — cited 1,922 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “The global spectrum of plant form and function” in Nature — cited 3,084 times.
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Published “Lenvatinib versus Placebo in Radioiodine-Refractory Thyroid Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,831 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “TRY – a global database of plant traits” in Global Change Biology — cited 2,169 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Programming Languages Achievement Award (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Published “In vivo corrosion of four magnesium alloys and the associated bone response” in Biomaterials — cited 2,203 times.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2004).
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Was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University (1999).
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Received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Popularized the adage now named Wirth's law
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht published the full documentation of the Oberon operating system
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Benoist Prize (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1987).
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Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1987).
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1984).
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Wirth received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages
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Won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages"
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1983).
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1975· 1 entry
Wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition
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1974· 1 entry
The Pascal User Manual and Report, jointly written with Kathleen Jensen, served as the basis of many language implementation efforts in the 1970s (BSD Pascal), and 1980s in the United States and across Europe
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1968· 1 entry
Became a professor of informatics at ETH Zürich, taking two one-year sabbaticals at Xerox PARC in California (1976–1977 and 1984–1985)
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1963· 2 entries
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy (1963).
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Was awarded a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by computer design pioneer Harry Huskey
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Laval University, Master of Science (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Studied at ETH Zurich, Bachelor of Science (1959).
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1938· 1 entry
Published “Urbanism as a Way of Life” in American Journal of Sociology — cited 2,903 times.
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-02-15.
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