W. T. Tutte
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 22 years ago |
Date of birth | May 14,1917 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Newmarket |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | May 2,2002 |
Died | Kitchener |
Canada | |
Field | Mathematics |
Awards | Henry Marshall Tory Medal |
CRM-Fields-PIMS prize | |
Jeffery–Williams Prize | |
Spous | Dorothea Geraldine Mitchell |
Doctor student | Neil Robertson |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 789135 |
W. T. Tutte Life story
William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC was an English and 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.