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W. T. Tutte

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Gender Male
Death21 years ago
Date of birth May 14,1917
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Newmarket
United Kingdom
Date of died May 2,2002
DiedKitchener
Canada
Field Mathematics
Awards Henry Marshall Tory Medal
CRM-Fields-PIMS prize
Jeffery–Williams Prize
SpousDorothea Geraldine Mitchell
Doctor student Neil Robertson
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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.

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