Yngvar G. Lundh
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Yngvar Gundro Lundh (19 March 1932 – 15 August 2020) was a Norwegian engineer and technology pioneer. He was known for bringing Internet to Norway as the second country after USA, and for developing one of Norway's first computing devices [1] In 2021 he was inducted in the Internet Hall of Fame.[2]
Life
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Background
Grew up close to Tønsberg (1932–1938), in Son, Norway (1938–1949) and in Råde, as the firstborn son of a farmer. He graduated in low-voltage electronics at Norges tekniske høgskole (NTH) in Trondheim in 1956.
Career
Lundh worked as a scientist at
Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI, 1957–1984) and was guest lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958) and Bell Labs
(1970).
He was chief engineer in
UiO
from 1980, and started teaching in microelectronics and computer-networking.
He was a radio amateur with the callsign LA7ZC.
References
- ^ Sverre Lande: Yngvar Lundh - Eulogy Aftenposten 27. august 2020
- ^ "Yngvar G. Lundh". Internet Hall of Fame. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
External links
- Yngvar G. Lundh - Internet hall of fame
- Yngvar Lundh - Store norske leksikon
- Dag Andreassen: Internett med norske pionerer - Teknisk Museums homepage
- Rolf Skar: Yngvar Lundh er den mest sentrale person innen norsk it noen gang - digi.no 10. April 2017
- Heradstveit, Per Øyvind (1985) Eventyret Norsk Data En bit av fremtiden J.M.Stenersens Forlag A/S ISBN 82-7201-040-2
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