W. T. Tutte
(1917-2002)
Codebreaker and mathematician
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William Thomas Tutte (14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was a British-born Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command. The high-level, strategic nature of the intelligence obtained from Tutte's crucial breakthrough, in the bulk decrypting of Lorenz-enciphered messages specifically, contributed greatly, and perhaps even decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany. He also had a number of significant mathematical accomplishments, including foundation work in the fields of graph theory and matroid theory.
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14 May 1917 Newmarket, Suffolk, England
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| Died |
2 May 2002 (aged 84) Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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