A memorial to Bill Tutte in Newmarket

The Bill Tutte Memorial
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....Rather than create a traditional sculpture, perhaps of Bill Tutte 
hiking through the countryside (his favourite past-time), the renowned 
Cambridge sculptor Harry Gray has created a fine work of modern art in a 
setting by landscape designer Ramon Keeley. The installation resonates 
with references to Bill Tutte and his work. Six seven-feet high stainless 
steel panels pierced with holes represent the punched paper tape that the 
Lorenz messages were converted into to enable the deciphering process. In 
front of the panels, a 41-tooth rotor represents Tutte's breakthrough in 
determining the structure of the Lorenz machine. Inside the rotor is a 
quotation from the citation for Tutte's membership of the Order of Canada 
written in a way that is difficult to decipher. Six bollards resemble 
teleprinter tape passing over a spool and each bears Tutte's name on one 
side and encrypted messages on the other. Visitors are invited to crack 
the messages using a crib on the memorial information board, which also 
carries a QR code to take them to the website where the solutions are 
displayed.

But that's not all. There is a Squared Square made by Leon Russell of 
Mildenhall to represent Bill's early fascination with mathematical 
puzzles. Only when standing in the centre of the Squared Square, 
reflecting the unique way he looked at the problem of reading the messages 
the paper tapes contained, visitors will see the full image of Bill Tutte 
emerge on the steel panels.  There are also tributes on the memorial 
benches to Capt Jerry Philips, one of Bill Tutte’s contemporaries at 
Bletchley Park, who before his death in 2014 campaigned tirelessly for 
greater recognition of Tutte’s achievement, and Tommy Flowers, the GPO 
telephone engineer who built Colossus to run the algorithms that Tutte 
devised to read Lorenz messages.....


http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/bill-tutte-memorial-unveiled

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-27737921

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Newmarket-memorial-codebreaker-Tutte-unveiled/story-22904416-detail/story.html

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/newmarket_cryptic_memorial_unveiled_to_wartime_code_breaker_professor_bill_tutte_1_3765757

http://newmarket.onesuffolk.net/home/the-bill-tutte-memorial/

http://billtuttememorial.org.uk/


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/11183660/The-forgotten-Lorenz-code-breaker.html