| LC control no. | nb2016020176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Zygalski, Henryk, 1908-1978 |
| Associated country | Poland England |
| Birth date | 1908-07-15 |
| Death date | 1978-08-30 |
| Place of birth | Poznań (Poland) |
| Place of death | Liss (England) |
| Field of activity | Mathematics Cryptography College teaching |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians Cryptographers College teachers |
| Found in | The triumph of Zygalski's sheets, 2015 Wikipedia, viewed 13 Oct. 2016 (Henryk Zygalski, b. 15 July 1908 in Poznań, d. 30 August 1978 in Liss; Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked on breaking Enigma ciphers before and during World War II; from September 1932 a civilian cryptologist with Biuro Szyfrów; he worked there with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki; together they developed methods and equipment for breaking Enigma messages; in 1938 he designed the "perforated sheets", known as "Zygalski sheets", a manual device for finding Enigma settings; after the war he remained in exile in the United Kingdom and worked as a lecturer in mathematical statistics at the University of Surrey) |
| Associated language | pol |
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