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John Cairncross

1913 - 1995

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John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that may have influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. He was also notable as a translator, literary scholar and writer of non-fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Cairncross is the 721st most popular mathematician (down from 675th in 2019), the 3,545th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,155th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Cairncross ranks 721 out of 1,004. Before him are Alexander Ostrowski, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Carl Neumann, Heinz Prüfer, Fritz Noether, and Eugene Dynkin. After him are Wu Wenjun, David Cox, Pingala, Max Newman, Paul Gordan, and Leopold Vietoris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, John Cairncross ranks 238. Before him are Pierre Daninos, Huang Hua, Helen Levitt, George Abecassis, Frankie Laine, and Adrian Quist. After him are Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Yaşar Doğu, Herbert Runge, Ferenc Csik, Halima Nosirova, and Willy Vandersteen. Among people deceased in 1995, John Cairncross ranks 207. Before him are Bryan Johnson, Laurindo Almeida, Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Hermínio de Brito, Genrikh Kasparyan, and Franco Fabrizi. After him are Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Nida Senff, Ted Drake, Henri Laborit, Massimo Pallottino, and René Lemoine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 3,546 out of 8,785. Before him are Frank Hadow (1855), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), Joe Fagan (1921), Ceolwulf of Wessex (600), Alexander Burnes (1805), and Keir Hardie (1856). After him are Jimmy Murray (1933), Danny Rose (1990), Peter Phillips (1977), Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), and Bernard Sumner (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 75. Before him are William Burnside (1852), Robert Simson (1687), John Hadley (1682), Egon Pearson (1895), Paul Bernays (1888), and Benjamin Robins (1707). After him are David Cox (1924), Max Newman (1897), William Hopkins (1793), Thomas Digges (1546), Simon Donaldson (1957), and Charles Howard Hinton (1853).

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