Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clarke was born on 24 June 1917 in West Norwood, London, England.
14 Facts About Joan Clarke
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Joan Clarke was the youngest child of Dorothy and the Revd William Kemp Lowther Clarke.
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Joan Clarke was denied a full degree, as until 1948 Cambridge awarded these only to males.
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Joan Clarke first arrived at Bletchley Park on 17 June 1940.
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Joan Clarke was initially placed in an all-women group, referred to as "The Girls", who mainly did routine clerical work.
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In June 1940, Joan Clarke was recruited by her former academic supervisor, Gordon Welchman, to the Government Code and Cypher School.
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Joan Clarke and Turing had been close friends since soon after they met, and continued to be until Turing's death in 1954.
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Joan Clarke later admitted that she suspected Turing's homosexuality for some time, and it was not much of a surprise when he made the admission to her.
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Joan Clarke assisted historians studying war-time code breaking at Bletchley Park.
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Joan Clarke established the sequence of the complex series of gold unicorn and heavy groat coins that were in circulation in Scotland during the reigns of James III and James IV.
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On 4 September 1996, Joan Clarke died at her home at 7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry.
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Joan Clarke was portrayed by Keira Knightley in the film The Imitation Game, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing.
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In contrast, an article by BBC journalist Joe Miller stated that Joan Clarke's "story has been immortalised".
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In terms of the film itself, director Morten Tyldum has argued that it shows how Joan Clarke succeeded in her field despite working in a time "when intelligence wasn't really appreciated in women".