Marian Adam
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Marian was born in Bromberg, German Empire back in 1905 to Jozef and Matyida. My research doesn’t tell me what school he attended except that he studied mathematics in Poznan University. In 1929 before graduating he began attending a secret cryptology course which opened in January. The course was conducted off-campus at a military facility. Anyway more of this to follow. He graduated with a Master of Philosophy degree in mathematics. In 1930 he began teaching a mathematics course at Poznan University, he also began to work part-time for the Cipher Bureau to decrypt German radio messages.
At this point I may as well go ahead and tell you his full name of Marian Adam Rejewski. With nothing more than a few sessions in cryptology and mathematics he did something no-one thought possible. He was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. This breakthrough enabled the British to read German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of WWII. If you read history the code name given to his research was named Ultra.
As a result of his research and contribution to the war effort he was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross, the War Medal and the Knowlton Award. I still have trouble for anything over 2+2…. He died in 1980 at 74.
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