Bill Tutte

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codebreaker graph theorist human mathematician

Bill Tutte was a British codebreaker and mathematician renowned for his crucial role at Bletchley Park in cracking the German Lorenz cipher during World War II.

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Label	Occurrences
Bill Tutte canonical	6
William Tutte	2
William Thomas Tutte	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	codebreaker ⓘ graph theorist ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
awardReceived	Officer of the Order of Canada ⓘ Order of the British Empire ⓘ Royal Society of Canada Fellowship ⓘ surface form: Royal Society of Canada fellowship
birthName	Bill Tutte self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: William Thomas Tutte
causeOfDeath	heart failure ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1917-05-14 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2002-05-02 ⓘ
educatedAt	Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
employer	Bletchley Park ⓘ University of Toronto ⓘ University of Waterloo ⓘ
familyName	Tutte ⓘ
fieldOfWork	cryptanalysis ⓘ graph theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ
givenName	William ⓘ
influenced	development of algebraic graph theory ⓘ development of modern combinatorics ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Society of Canada ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ surface form: Royal Society of London
militaryConflict	World War II ⓘ
nickname	Bill Tutte self-link ⓘ
notableAchievement	made key contributions to Allied codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II ⓘ pioneered modern graph theory ⓘ reconstructed the logical structure of the Lorenz SZ40/42 cipher machine without seeing the machine ⓘ
notableStudent	C. A. B. Smith ⓘ
notableWork	Tutte polynomial ⓘ cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher ⓘ decomposition of graphs into blocks ⓘ theory of bridges in graphs ⓘ theory of matroids ⓘ work on graph colorings ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Newmarket (Suffolk part) ⓘ surface form: Newmarket, Suffolk, England
placeOfDeath	Waterloo, Ontario ⓘ surface form: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
positionHeld	professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo ⓘ researcher at Bletchley Park ⓘ
residence	Newmarket (Suffolk part) ⓘ surface form: Newmarket, Suffolk, England Waterloo, Ontario ⓘ surface form: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Toronto ⓘ surface form: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Waterloo, Ontario ⓘ surface form: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Bletchley Park → employed → Bill Tutte ⓘ

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Tommy Flowers → collaboratedWith → Bill Tutte ⓘ

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Hut 8 → employed → Bill Tutte ⓘ

Colossus computers → associatedPerson → Bill Tutte ⓘ

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Ultra intelligence → notablePerson → Bill Tutte ⓘ

Bill Tutte → birthName → Bill Tutte self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomas Tutte

Bill Tutte → nickname → Bill Tutte self-link ⓘ