1905 - 1980
Marian Adam Rejewski (Polish: [ˈmarjan rɛˈjɛfskʲi] ; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence. Over the next nearly seven years, Rejewski and fellow mathematician-cryptologists Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, developed techniques and equipment for decrypting the Enigma ciphers, even as the Germans introduced modifications to their Enigma machines and encryption procedures. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marian Rejewski has received more than 577,742 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Rejewski is the 124th most popular mathematician (up from 126th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 150th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Mathematician.
Marian Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who broke the German Enigma machine in 1932.
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Among mathematicians, Marian Rejewski ranks 124 out of 823. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich, Émile Borel, Aloysius Lilius, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Andrew Wiles. After him are Brook Taylor, Henri Lebesgue, Herbert A. Hauptman, Menelaus of Alexandria, Oliver Heaviside, and Andrey Markov.
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 118
1871 - 1956
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 119
1510 - 1576
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 120
1917 - 2008
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 121
1852 - 1939
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 122
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 123
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 124
1685 - 1731
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 125
1875 - 1941
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 126
1917 - 2011
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 127
70 - 140
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 128
1850 - 1925
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 129
1856 - 1922
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 130
Among people born in 1905, Marian Rejewski ranks 29. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Emilio Segrè, Władysław Gomułka, Max Schmeling, Dalton Trumbo, and Franz Ziereis. After him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Gerard Kuiper, Jean Vigo, Nevill Francis Mott, and Ulf von Euler. Among people deceased in 1980, Marian Rejewski ranks 41. Before him are Hans Morgenthau, Willard Libby, Alexander Oparin, William Howard Stein, Mae West, and Alejo Carpentier. After him are Fritz Strassmann, Vinicius de Moraes, Seretse Khama, Ludwig Guttmann, Lewis Milestone, and Kim Jae-gyu.
1905 - 1966
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 23
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 24
1905 - 1982
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 25
1905 - 2005
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 26
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 27
1905 - 1945
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 28
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 29
1905 - 1997
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 30
1905 - 1944
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 31
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 32
1905 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 33
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 34
1905 - 1983
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 35
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 35
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 36
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 37
1911 - 1980
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 38
1893 - 1980
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 39
1904 - 1980
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 40
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 41
1902 - 1980
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 42
1913 - 1980
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 43
1921 - 1980
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 44
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 45
1895 - 1980
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 46
1926 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 47
Among people born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 162 out of 1,454. Before him are Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Władysław Anders (1892), and Reinhard Selten (1930). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), and Albert Sabin (1906).
1948 - 1989
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 156
1962 - Present
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 157
1915 - 2006
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 158
1818 - 1879
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 159
1892 - 1970
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 160
1930 - 2016
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 161
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 162
1889 - 1962
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 163
1884 - 1945
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 164
1892 - 1956
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 165
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 166
1394 - 1429
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 167
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 168
Among mathematicians born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 4. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), and Leopold Kronecker (1823). After him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 1
1892 - 1945
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 2
1823 - 1891
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 3
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 4
1868 - 1942
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 5
1809 - 1877
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 6
1882 - 1969
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 7
1810 - 1893
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 8
1651 - 1708
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 9
1843 - 1921
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 10
1887 - 1972
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 11
1896 - 1980
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 12