Kristen Nygaard

Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.

Family

Kristen Nygaard married Johanna Nygaard in 1951.

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Johanna Nygaard worked at

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the Norwegian Agency for Aid to Developing

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Countries. She specialised for a number of years in recruiting and

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giving administrative support to specialists working in

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East Africa.

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Johanna and Kristen had three children and seven grandchildren.

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