Yngvar G. Lundh

Yngvar Gundro Lundh 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. In 2021 he was inducted in the Internet Hall of Fame.

Life

Background

Grew up close to Tønsberg, in Son, Norway and in Råde, as the firstborn son of a farmer. He graduated in low-voltage electronics at Norges tekniske høgskole in Trondheim in 1956.

Career

Lundh worked as a scientist at Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt and was guest lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bell Labs.
He was chief engineer in Televerket/Telenor 1985-1996 and run a consulting service after that Vista Telematikk. He was professor II in informatics at UiO from 1980, and started teaching in microelectronics and computer-networking.
He was a radio amateur with the callsign LA7ZC.