W. T. Tutte
English-Canadian mathematician
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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... Wikipedia
Born: May 14, 1917, Newmarket, United Kingdom
Died: May 2, 2002 (age 84 years), Kitchener, Canada
Education: University of Cambridge (1945–1948), Trinity College (1935–1939), Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (1928–1935), and more
Awards: Jeffery–Williams Prize (1971), Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1975), Killam Prize (1982), and more
Doctoral advisor: Shaun Wylie
Doctoral students: W. G. Brown; Neil Robertson;