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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. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in the Enigma project that decrypted the German secret communications earned her awards and citations, such as appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Clarke is the 95th most popular mathematician (up from 101st in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 444th in 2019) and the 9th 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 95 out of 1,004. Before her are Thomas Harriot, Stefan Banach, Christian Goldbach, Jim Simons, Leopold Kronecker, and Frank P. Ramsey. After her are L. E. J. Brouwer, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Paul Erdős, John Wallis, and Claude Shannon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Joan Clarke ranks 22. Before her are Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Herbert A. Hauptman, I. M. Pei, Robert Mitchum, and Ernest Borgnine. After her are John Cornforth, Robert Burns Woodward, Kenan Evren, Anthony Burgess, Donald Davidson, and Sidney Sheldon. Among people deceased in 1996, Joan Clarke ranks 20. Before her are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Frank Whittle, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Joseph Brodsky, and Babrak Karmal. After her are Tiny Tim, Silvio Piola, Paul Erdős, René Lacoste, Sergiu Celibidache, and Adolf Galland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Clarke ranks 464 out of 8,785. Before her are Nigel Mansell (1953), Richard Cromwell (1626), James Fox (1939), William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146), Joseph Merrick (1862), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903). After her are Ken Miles (1918), Llywelyn the Great (1173), George Shaw (1751), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Jasper Tudor (1431), and Tom Baker (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joan Clarke ranks 9. Before her are John Napier (1550), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), John Couch Adams (1819), Thomas Harriot (1560), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903). After her are John Wallis (1616), George Green (1793), William Oughtred (1574), Isaac Barrow (1631), G. H. Hardy (1877), and Brook Taylor (1685).

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