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William Tutte. He is well known for his contributions to graph and matroid theory, including pioneering the enumeration of planar graphs, and introducing the so called Tutte polynomial. He is less well known for his work on deciphering German codes during World War II, similar to Turing. According to Wikipedia "During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command. "

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