Olle Karlqvist (1922-1976) grew up in Norrköping and graduated as engineer at KTH in 1949. He was a member of Matematikmaskinnämnden from the start and worked on the computers BARK and BESK. 1948 he married Inga Lindberg from Nora. They had two children Yvonne in 1949 and Jan in 1953. In 1970 he remarried with Margit Bergqvist from Lidingö. In 1953 he discovered the "Karlqvist field", a magnetic phenomena that is now being used for calculations in the development of read/write heads of hard disks.

External links

• Tekn. lic. Olle Karlqvist in memoriam, memorial site of one of the engineers behind BARK and BESK

Swedish computer scientists | 1922 births | 1976 deaths