Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth
	Wirth in 2005
Born	Niklaus Emil Wirth; 15 February 1934; Winterthur, Switzerland
Died	1 January 2024 (aged 89); Zürich, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Education	BS, ETH Zurich (1959); MSc, Université Laval (1960); PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1963);
Known for	ALGOL W, Euler, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Oberon System
Awards	IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1983); Turing Award (1984); SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award; Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2004); Marcel Benoist Prize (1989);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	ETH Zurich; Stanford University; University of Zurich; Xerox PARC;
Thesis	A Generalization of Algol (1963)
Doctoral advisor	Harry Huskey, Edward Feigenbaum
Doctoral students	Martin Odersky, Michael Franz
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Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) 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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