Adriaan van Wijngaarden Scientist

Adriaan van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 02, 1916
Birth place	Rotterdam
Date of death	February 07, 1987
Place of death	Amstelveen
Education	Delft University of Technology
Known for	ALGOL Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica International Federation for Information Processing Van Wijngaarden grammar

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Scientist

awards	Computer Pioneer Award
doctoral advisor	Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno
doctoral student	Edsger W. Dijkstra
Field of study	Computer science Numerical analysis