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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...
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...
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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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,...
1 de dez. de 2009 · Alfred "Dilly" Knox was Britain’s leading wartime codebreaker, an eccentric genius who did more than anyone to decipher the Nazi Enigma codes, thereby shortening the war. Mavis Batey worked at Bletchley Park during the war; few knew Dilly better. She advised Kate Winslet on her role in the film Enigma . Show more. Genres NonfictionBiographyHistory.
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.
