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Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist is most popularly known for creating the C programming language. Dennis grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended ‘Summit High School’ in Summit, New Jersey. He was a star student in the classroom, earning consistently good grades. He went on to study applied mathematics and physics at Harvard University. When he started working at Bell Labs in 1967, he began working on his PhD. However, he was not able to complete his education. At Bell Labs he made friends with Ken Thompson and together they began developing the ‘Multics’ operating system. Dennis invented the programming language ‘C’ and the operating system ‘Unix’ while working at the University of California, Berkeley. Over time, Unix operating system gained popularity, and C programming language became the most widely used. Dennis and his colleague Ken Thompson received a ‘Turing Award’ in 1983 for their contributions to computer science field. Along with the “National Medal of Technolo