Asteroids named after people called Niklaus
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(21655) Niklauswirth
Niklaus Wirth (b. 1934), professor of computer science variously at Stanford University, the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, created the computer languages ALGOL, Pascal and Modula. His ideas are widely used in the architecture of contemporary computer systems.Discovered 8 August 1999 by L. Sarounova, Ondrejov
(27764) von Flue
Niklaus von Flüe (1417–1487), councilor, judge, mystic and father of ten children, saved Switzerland from decay several times by his political intervention. In 1467 he left his family and positions and became a hermit.Discovered 10 September 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg