Person Tutte; William Thomas (1917 - 2002) Tutte William Thomas 1917 - 2002 British Male Newmarket, Suffolk 14/05/1917 19170514 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 02/05/2002 20020502

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) Married (1949) Dorothea Mitchell (died 1994) Fellow 19/03/1987 69 Sources: Obituary in The Times (08 May 2002); The Independent (09 May 2002); The Guardian (10 May 2002); The Daily Telegraph (09 May 2002) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 14 May 1917 - 2 May 2002 NA4056 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/9915493 330231a2-13c3-4f93-8e1d-e145ce2586b7