Rolf Noskwith was a British cryptographer in World War II

World War II

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He worked in Hut 8

Hut 8

Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing...

 at Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

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 on German naval Enigma

Enigma machine

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 traffic from 1941 to 1945, and subsequently on other ciphers. He recalled that most people were addressed by their first name there; the two exceptions were Alan Turing

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...

, known as Prof, and F.A. Kendrick, who he was surprised to see listed in the index of Codebreakers as Kendrick, Tony.

He emigrated to England

England

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 with his parents in 1932, and was educated at Nottingham High School and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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From 1946 he worked for Charnos, the textile company founded by his father, and around 2000 was non-executive chairman of Charnos plc.