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Key figures in SIGINT

Throughout our one hundred years many trailblazers have worked, in secret to change the course of history. Discover their stories.

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Surnames H - N

Explore the next part of the collection, organised in surname H to N. This section features the brilliantly eccentric Dilly Knox, and an early pioneer of Artificial Intelligence.

John Herivel
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John Herivel

Pioneered an early approach against the Enigma cipher system
Roy Jenkins
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Roy Jenkins

Part of Bletchley Park's Block F 'Testery' research team from its beginnings in 1942
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Alfred Dillwyn 'Dilly' Knox

Cryptanalyst at Room 40 and Bletchley Park, known for doing his best thinking in a bathtub in his office.

Leslie Lambert
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Leslie Lambert

One of the members of Captain Ridley's Shooting Party, working at Bletchley Park between 1939 and 1941.

Donald Michie
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Donald Michie FRSE FBCS

An early pioneer of artificial intelligence
Captain Eric Nave
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Captain Eric Nave OBE

Joined the GC&CS in 1928 and was made the Head of the Naval Section
Max Newman
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Dr Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman

Led the team that produced Britain's first general-purpose stored programme computer
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Rolf Noskwith

German-speaking Jewish cryptanalyst who worked on German Naval Enigma cipher systems at Bletchley Park during WWII

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