Série DWB - Babbage, Dennis

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Babbage, Dennis

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  • 1928-1991 (Création/Production)

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2 notebooks, 1 file, 18 offprints, 1 report, 3 items, paper
2 photographic prints
2 photographic negatives

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(26 April 1909 - 9 June 1991)

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Matriculated in 1927 and achieved a first class in all parts of the Mathematical Tripos.

Chief Cryptographer at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, where ‘the outstanding skill and inventiveness of Dennis Babbage and his team’ is now acknowledged (D. Taunt), together with his legendary skill at billiards (Michael Smith, Station X: the code-breakers of Bletchley Park (2000) p 41).

Bye-Fellow, 1931 - 1933
Fellow, 1933 - 1991
Director of Studies in Mathematics, 1934 - 1977
Tutor, 1946
Senior Tutor, 1964 - 1973
President 1973 - 1979 (Acting Master, Michaelmas, 1978)
University Lecturer, 1936 - 1976
Senior Proctor, 1953 - 1954

In March 1962 he married Stephana Gaselee, daughter of Lady Gaselee and the late Sir Stephen Gaselee (Fellow of Magdalene, 1908 - 1943).

He was a distant relative of the 19th century mathematician Charles Babbage but was not a descendant.

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A collection of lecture notes, offprints, a report on 'Colossus', 2 photographs, and the speech he gave at the lunch to mark his 50th year as a Fellow. Collected from his room in College by the Archivist after his death to create this collection.

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