OBITUARY : Professor Murray MacBeath
Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:04:05 +0100
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June 26 2014 OBITUARY : Professor Murray MacBeath ------------------------------------ Mathematician who broke the Japanese naval ciphers at Bletchley Park and later lectured at Dundee and Birmingham Having gained a first in mathematics from Queens University Belfast in 1942, Murray MacBeath joined the staff of Bletchley Park. Working in Hut 7 under the supervision of Colonel John Tiltman, MacBeath was engaged first in the breaking of the Japanese naval ciphers and then translating the received text into English. His work broadened to include both Japanese naval and army air force communications. After the war he took his MA at Clare College, Cambridge, and then a Commonwealth fund fellowship at Princeton for his PhD. He taught at Keele but by 1953 he was professor of mathematics.../snip/ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4131231.ece http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00723/b462930e-fd5f-11e3-_723969c.jpg