BOOK : 'Gordon Welchman : Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence'

Friday 24 ebruary 2017

Enigma’s ‘forgotten genius’ :
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Story of Alan Turing’s spymaster boss who led the team that cracked
Hitler’s WWII codes then was persecuted for speaking out
is told in a new book
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- Mathematician Gordon Welchman was selected as a potential codebreaker
   before the outbreak of war
- A lecturer at University of Cambridge, he turned Alan Turing's
   codebreaking Bombe into a workable machine
- Persecuted by UK and US intelligence agencies after revealing how he
   hacked into secret German messages
- Post war helped develop air traffic control, digital computers and
   taught one of the first computing courses

By Amie Gordon For Mailonline

He is described as codebreaker's 'forgotten genius' and Bletchley Park's
'Architect of Ultra Intelligence' - but despite his contribution to the
war effort, Gordon Welchman was persecuted by the British government UK.

The brilliant mathematician and University of Cambridge lecturer was
selected as a codebreaker before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Welchman adapted Alan Turing's design for the codebreaking Bombe
machine, transforming it into a workable device and established Hut 6,
leading the team who decrypted more than 1 million German air force and
army codes.

One of his colleagues at the time described him as 'one of the most
original minds I have ever known'.

However, the Government Communications Headquarters described him as 'a
disastrous example to others' in 1982 after he published details of WW2
codebreaking in his book, The Hut Six Story - and he was subsequently
persecuted by US intelligence agencies.

Now a new book will reveal all about the man who, after the war, also
transformed air traffic control, developed digital computers and taught
one of the first computing courses.....


- Joel Greenberg's book 'Gordon Welchman : Bletchley Park's Architect
   of Ultra Intelligence' is available to purchase at the Mail Bookshop


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4256052/Enigma-s-forgotten-genius-Alan-Turing-s-spymaster-boss.html

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"Gordon Welchman : Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence"
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by Joel Greenberg

Product details
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     Paperback
     304 pages
     Publisher : Frontline Books; Reprint edition
     28 Feb. 2017
     ISBN-10 : 1473885256
     ISBN-13 : 978-1473885257
     Product Dimensions : 15.6 x 2.4 x 23.4 cm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gordon-Welchman-Bletchley-Architect-Intelligence/dp/1473885256/

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