| Authorised form of name | Tutte; William Thomas (1917 - 2002) |
| Dates | 1917 - 2002 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Newmarket, Suffolk |
| Date of birth | 14/05/1917 |
| Place of death | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of death | 02/05/2002 |
| Activity | Education:
Cambridge and County High School; Natural Sciences specialising in chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge (1935 - 1941); member of Trinity Mathematical Society, "squared the square" with R L Brooks, C A B Smith and A H Stone
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1942 - 1949); codebreaker at Bletchley Park (1941-1945), broke cipher known as Fish - used for top level communications in the German High Command; post WW2 returned to Trinity College, Cambridge as a research fellow, completed PhD in Maths; established Graph Theory; Lecturer and then Associate Professor at University of Toronto - worked on combinatorics or the science of counting (1948 - 1962); Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Ontario (1962 - 1985), Department of Combinatonics and Optimisation created around him; Honorary Director of The Centre for Cryptographic Research, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1958)
Honours:
Officer of the Order of Canada (2001) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1987 |
| Age at election | 69 |
| Relationships | Married (1949) Dorothea Mitchell (died 1994) |
| Source | Sources:
Obituary in The Times (08 May 2002); The Independent (09 May 2002); The Guardian (10 May 2002); The Daily Telegraph (09 May 2002) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/9915493 |
| Code | NA4056 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1987/38 | Tutte, William Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1980 |
| IM/004681 | Tutte, William Thomas | nd |
| RR/66/232 | Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of ethylene, deutero-ethylene and some alkyl-substituted ethylenes in the vacuum ultra-violet' by William Charles Price and William Thomas Tutte | [November 1939] |