# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-t-tutte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:45.209Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/w-t-tutte"
name: "W. T. Tutte"
slug: "w-t-tutte"
description: "William Thomas Tutte was an English and Canadian code breaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command."
tagline: "British-Canadian codebreaker and mathematician (1917-2002)"
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birthDate: "1917-05-14"
deathDate: "2002-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump