Rolf Noskwith
World War II-era British Intelligence officer, cryptographer partially responsible for breaking the German Enigma code. Post-war businessman.
Rolf Noskwith (19 June 1919 – 3 January 2017) was a British businessman. During the Second World War, he worked under Alan Turing as a cryptographer at the British military base Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Noskwith was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. His parents were Eastern European-born Jews. He moved with his family to England in 1932. He was educated at Cambridge.
Noskwith died on 3 January 2017 in London at the age of 97.[1]
References
change- ↑ "Jewish Bletchley Park code-breaker Rolf Noskwith dies aged 97". Israel News Online. 4 January 2017. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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