Arthur Norberg

{{short description|American historian}}

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| birth_name = Arthur Lawrence Norberg

| birth_date = 1938

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| nationality = American

| fields = History of science and technology

| workplaces = University of Minnesota

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| education = Providence College
University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin–Madison

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| thesis_title = Simon Newcomb and Nineteenth-century Positional Astronomy

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| thesis_year = 1974

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| known_for = History of computing

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Arthur Lawrence Norberg (born 1938; died August 9, 2021){{Cite web |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6ww7n7h |title=Norberg, Arthur L. (Arthur Lawrence), 1938- |website= Social Networks and Archival Context |access-date=2020-01-19}} was an American historian of science and technology who had been Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota since 2005. Previously, he held the ERA Land-Grant Chair in History of Technology at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Charles Babbage Institute.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hstm.umn.edu/faculty/arthur-l-norberg |title=Arthur L. Norberg |date=2015-10-16 |website=History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |language=en |access-date=2020-01-19}}{{Cite journal |last=Aspray |first=William |date=October–December 2007 |title=Leadership in Computing History: Arthur Norberg and the Charles Babbage Institute |url=https://www.computer.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.61 |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=29 |pages=16–26 |doi=10.1109/mahc.2007.61|s2cid=38199602 }} Much of his research is on the history of computing. In June 2006, to commemorate Norberg's retirement as director of the Charles Babbage Institute, a symposium was held at the Institute in his honor; some of the papers presented there were later published in a special issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.{{Cite journal |last=Misa |first=Thomas J. |date=October–December 2007 |title=Guest Editors' Introduction: New Directions in the History of Computing |url=https://www.computer.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.59 |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=29 |pages=6–7 |doi=10.1109/mahc.2007.59}}