Yngvar G. Lundh

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

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