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Henryk Zygalski

1908 - 1978

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Henryk Zygalski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈxɛnrɨk zɨˈɡalski] ; 15 July 1908 – 30 August 1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henryk Zygalski has received more than 96,149 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henryk Zygalski is the 448th most popular mathematician (up from 524th in 2019), the 2,948th most popular biography from Germany (down from 673rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henryk Zygalski ranks 448 out of 823. Before her are Max Dehn, Peter Lax, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Michael O. Rabin, Georgy Voronoy, and 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk. After her are Johan Jensen, Ion Ghica, Francesco Maurolico, Lothar Collatz, Enrico Betti, and Auguste Kerckhoffs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Henryk Zygalski ranks 149. Before her are Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, Maria Prymachenko, Fritz Fischer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and Lauri Lehtinen. After her are Robert Morley, Ho Jong-suk, Nikolay Nosov, Mario Evaristo, Boris Polevoy, and Bengt Strömgren. Among people deceased in 1978, Henryk Zygalski ranks 104. Before her are Viggo Brun, Diana Budisavljević, Luigi Allemandi, Harold Abrahams, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, and Roy Harrod. After her are Carlos Chávez, Federico Chávez, José Gonzalvo, Ivan Tyulenev, Julio Jaramillo, and Bernhard Karlgren.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henryk Zygalski ranks 2,948 out of 6,142. Before her are Anita Berber (1899), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751), Margaret of Thuringia (1449), and Johann Andreas Stein (1728). After her are Toni Turek (1919), Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802), Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829), Hugo Eckener (1868), Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786), and Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Henryk Zygalski ranks 54. Before her are Hermann Hankel (1839), Karl Mollweide (1774), Otto Hölder (1859), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Johann Samuel König (1712), and Max Dehn (1878). After her are Lothar Collatz (1910), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Adam Ries (1492), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), and Wilhelm Jordan (1842).

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