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Nikalus Emil Wirth was born on 15 February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He is a Swiss computer scientist. In the year 1984, he was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages like EULER, MODULA, ALGOL-W, and Pascal. Birth 15 February 1934 Birthplace Winterthur, Switzerland Education B.S., MSc, and Ph.D. Awards Turing Award, Marcel Benoist Prize Field Computer Science Known For Modula, Oberon System, Oberon-07, Pascal, ALGOL W, Oberon, Euler, Modula-2, Oberon-2 Education & Career He completed his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in electronic engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1959. And he earned a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Laval University, Canada in 1960 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University