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Card #43 - Location: Bletchley Park | |
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Stolen Archive file 43: Classified dossier on Bletchley Park's brightest minds
(photo is a silhouette with CONFIDENTIAL stamp on top)
DILLY KNOX
(fingerprint)
23 July, 1884 - 27 February, 1943
Classicist, Cryptanalyst
NOTE: Knox worked with language-based codes. After developing lymph cancer, he began working from home.
(photo of Alan Turing)
ALAN TURING
(fingerprint)
23 June, 1912 - 7 June, 1954
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
NOTE: Turing was the head of German cipher analysis at Bletchley Park and cracked many codes until he was removed and put on probation for being gay.
(photo of Miriam Rothschild)
Miriam Rothschild
(fingerprint)
5 August, 1908 - 20 January, 2005
Zoologist, Entomologist, Cryptanalyst
NOTE: Rothschild was born wealthy and used her fame and money to get the British government to give more German Jews asylum during WWII.
(photo of Tommy Flowers)
Tommy Flowers
(fingerprint)
22 December, 1905 - 28 October, 1998
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
NOTE: Flowers himself paid for much of the equipment for his code-breaking computer, the Colossus, because Bletchley Park management was not convinced it would work.