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207: 506: 173: 316: 39: 357:(IEEE) honored Rejewski, Różycki, and Zygalski with its prestigious Milestone Award, which recognizes achievements that have changed the world. Milestones was given for "First Breaking of Enigma Code by the Team of Polish Cipher Bureau, 1932-1939", they built the 174: 361:
which was the first cryptanalytic machine to break codes. Their work was a foundation of British code breaking efforts which, with later American assistance, helped end World War II.
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issued a commemorative stamp featuring Henryk Zygalski alongside fellow cryptologists Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki.
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In late 1938, in response to growing complexities in German encryption procedures, Zygalski designed the "
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Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War II
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and worked, until his retirement, as a lecturer in mathematical statistics at the
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for his "outstanding contributions to the Republic of Poland".
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with an honorary doctorate for his role in breaking Enigma.
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Shortly before his death, Zygalski was honored by the
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alumni and Cipher Bureau cryptology-course graduates
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Zygalski

German Empire
Poznań
Poland
Liss
England
Polish
Mathematician
cryptologist
Enigma-machine
Order of Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross
IEEE
[ˈxɛnrɨkzɨˈɡalski]

mathematician
cryptologist
Enigma-machine
ciphers
World War II

Posen
German Empire
Poland
cryptologist
Polish
General Staff
Biuro Szyfrów
Saxon Palace
Warsaw

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