# Bernard Willson

> Harold Bernard Willson was a British linguist and noted academic, who during the Second World War was the first person to decrypt the Italian Navy Hagelin C-38 code machine. He was the father of television presenter and motoring journalist Quentin Willson.

*British linguist, academic*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/bernard-willson

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1919-02-25
- **Died:** 1994-09-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 38.6
- **Momentum:** 14.0

## Sources
- [Bernard Willson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Willson)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15990364)

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