Marian Adam Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine.
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Rejewski's birthplace
Rejewski studied mathematics at Poznań University.![Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave (Göttingen).[7]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/G%C3%B6ttingen-Grave.of.Gau%C3%9F.06.jpg/1280px-G%C3%B6ttingen-Grave.of.Gau%C3%9F.06.jpg)
Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave (Göttingen).[7]
Enigma machine, solved by Rejewski in 1932
Cyclometer, devised in the mid-1930s by Rejewski to catalog the cycle structure of Enigma permutations.
Zygalski sheet![2002 plaque, Bletchley Park, "commemorat[ing] the work of Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski, mathematicians of the Polish intelligence service, in first breaking the Enigma code [sic: it was a cipher]. Their work greatly assisted the Bletchley Park code breakers and contributed to the Allied victory in World War II."](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Bp-polish-codebreakers-plaque.jpg/1280px-Bp-polish-codebreakers-plaque.jpg)
2002 plaque, Bletchley Park, "commemorat[ing] the work of Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski, mathematicians of the Polish intelligence service, in first breaking the Enigma code [sic: it was a cipher]. Their work greatly assisted the Bletchley Park code breakers and contributed to the Allied victory in World War II."Awards 4
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Stanisław MikulskiAlso won Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence
John FrostAlso won War Medal 1939-1945
Maja KomorowskaAlso won Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of WellingtonAlso won War Medal 1939-1945
Mirosław HermaszewskiAlso won Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence
Leo MajorAlso won War Medal 1939-1945About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1980 · aged 74
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