Willy Christian Simonsen (13 September 1913 – 4 December 2003) was a Norwegian engineer and business founder.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of chemist Einar Simonsen (1867–1918) and Alice Sophia Andersen (1877–1969).
He finished his secondary education at Hegdehaugen School in 1933,[1] and graduated in electrical engineering from the Dresden University of Technology in 1938.
This was discovered and Simonsen was arrested by Gestapo, but admitted to Ullevål Hospital from which he escaped.
These companies produced automatic cell phones,[2] in the NMT 450 system,[1] and were leading in the Norwegian market until the 1980s.