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Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.
28 de out. de 2017 · Knox, full name Alfred Dillwyn Knox, grew up in Birmingham – although he went to school at Eton – because his father was Edmund Knox, vicar of Aston from 1891 when Dilly was seven, and of...
The archetypical eccentric British boffin, Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox was educated at Summer Fields School, Eton College and King's College, Cambridge where he studied the classics. Knox was appointed a master at Cambridge in 1909 where he became an expert on ancient papyn, and during the Great War he was recruited as a codebreaker in ...
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9 de fev. de 2017 · The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two world wars. During the first, he was the...
4 de abr. de 2021 · Alfred Dillwyn Knox is not a widely recognised name, but his career as one of the UK’s leading cryptologists and codebreakers spanned some 30 years, and two world wars. For much of that time he lived in Naphill, and was a well-known and congenial figure in the locality.
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Alfred Dillwyn Knox was a famously eccentric & temperamental codebreaker who cracked German ciphers in both wars & decoded the Herodas papyri. Knox, the son of a famous religious scholar,...
Alfred Dillwyn 'Dilly' Knox CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a classics scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and a British codebreaker. He was a member of the World War I Room 40 codebreaking unit, and later at Bletchley Park he worked on the cryptanalysis of Enigma ciphers until his death in 1943.
