Peter Wegner (born August 20, 1932) was an alumnus of Harvard and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (the world's largest scientific and educational computing society).
Wegner was educated at University of Cambridge and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1954, at a time when there were no PhD programs in computer science. 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. 
