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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
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 Televerket/Telenor 1985-1996 and run a consulting service after that Vista Telematikk. He was professor II in informatikk at 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