W. T. Tutte
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 23 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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| 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.