It is this real life story of incredible triumph and shockingly narrow-minded tragedy that is to be retold in the upcoming release of The Imitation Game. When he was given the choice of a prison sentence or chemical castration he opted for the latter, before being found dead in 1954, with the inquest recording his death as suicide from cyanide poisoning. Conversely, he went on to be prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, at which time it was still a criminal offense in the UK. His work included making significant improvements to the Polish bombe method making a machine that was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval codes a day as a part of the Allied war efforts’ Project Ultra, which has been described as being instrumental in bringing about the end of World War II by Winston Churchill. Celebrated as a hero in his home country, he died at the age of 74 in 1980 with movies, TV series, stamps and statues created in his honour.īritish mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, computer scientist and mathematical biologist, Alan Turing, took up Rejewski’s work during the war and devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers at the top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. Despite a number of minor investigations on the part of the Polish security services about his part in the war, he had a relatively quiet life with his wife and children working as a director in one organisation or another, before he retired and eventually found out about how his work had been used by British intelligence at Bletchley in the Allied war effort.
In 1932, Polish mathematician and cryptologist Marian Rejewski broke the cipher of the German-made plugboard equipped Enigma Machine, before going on to work silently for the Allied forces throughout the war.
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