Edsger W. Dijkstra
1930 – 2002 Netherlands
information scientistmathematicianphysicistprogrammeruniversity teacher
Who was Edsger W. Dijkstra?
Dutch computer scientist who created fundamental algorithms including Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and made major contributions to programming language design.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Edsger W. Dijkstra (CC BY-SA 4.0).