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Dilly Knox
British cryptographer (1884-1943) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 58
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Something wrong?Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG was an English classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.
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Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG was an English classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War. He then joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS).
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