MATHEMATICIAN

Joan Clarke

1917 - 1996

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Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Clarke has received more than 4,937,280 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Joan Clarke is the 101st most popular mathematician (down from 94th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 418th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Mathematician.

Joan Clarke is most famous for being the woman who worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joan Clarke ranks 101 out of 1,004. Before her are Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Isaac Barrow, and Grigori Perelman. After her are Christian Goldbach, Willebrord Snellius, Thomas Harriot, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Charles Hermite, and Paul Ehrenfest.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Joan Clarke ranks 17. Before her are I. M. Pei, Ferdinand Marcos, Anthony Burgess, Ernest Borgnine, Christian de Duve, and Sidney Sheldon. After her are Kenan Evren, James Rainwater, Otto Günsche, Joan Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Among people deceased in 1996, Joan Clarke ranks 23. Before her are Lars Ahlfors, Silvio Piola, Babrak Karmal, Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, and Sergiu Celibidache. After her are Marcel Carné, Magda Schneider, Abdus Salam, Artur Axmann, René Clément, and Odysseas Elytis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Clarke ranks 444 out of 8,785. Before her are Ronald Coase (1910), Cary Grant (1904), Marie of Romania (1875), Charles Dance (1946), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), and William Pitt the Younger (1759). After her are Robert Walpole (1676), David Niven (1910), J. M. Barrie (1860), John Rhys-Davies (1944), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), and Tim Curry (1946).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joan Clarke ranks 8. Before her are John Napier (1550), Ada Lovelace (1815), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), and Isaac Barrow (1631). After her are Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), John Couch Adams (1819), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Oliver Heaviside (1850).

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