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Solomon Kullback

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American mathematician and cryptanalyst (1907-1994)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1907 to 1994 · aged 87
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Solomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov.

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1942Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Wilks Memorial Award
Fellow of the American Statistical Association

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Solomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and its eventual successor, the National Security Agency (NSA). Kullback was the Chief Scientist at the NSA until his retirement in 1962, whereupon he took a position at the George Washington University.

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Lived 1907 to 1994 · aged 87
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