Peter Wegner (born August 20, 1932) was an alumnus of the University of London and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (the world's largest scientific and educational computing society).
(1932-08-20)August 20, 1932
Leningrad, USSR University of London Fellow of the ACM (1995)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class (1999) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947, and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. 
Peter A. Wegner (August 20, 1932  July 27, 2017) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the ChurchTuring thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s and present. He was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1968 for his book Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization, with Maurice Wilkes listed as his supervisor. Wegner was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1995 and received the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2000. It was founded in 1947, and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. 
