Peter Frank George Twinn was an English mathematician, Second World War codebreaker and entomologist.
16 Facts About Peter Twinn
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Peter Twinn won a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in physics.
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Peter Twinn worked with Dilly Knox and Alan Turing on German Enigma ciphers.
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Peter Twinn was in the middle of a postgraduate scholarship studying Physics when he saw an advertisement for a job with the government.
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Peter Twinn gave Twinn a mere five minutes' training before telling him to go and get on with it.
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Peter Twinn was the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939.
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Peter Twinn recommended them to Siegfried Turkel, the director of the Institute of Criminology in Vienna, who became interested in them.
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In early 1940 Peter Twinn made the first break into Enigma.
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Peter Twinn worked with Turing on breaking the German Naval Enigma.
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In early 1942, with Knox seriously ill, Peter Twinn took change of running ISK and was appointed head after Knox's death.
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Peter Twinn's carried on government work after the war in a number of departments, including, in the late 1960s, as Director of Hovercraft in the Ministry for Technology.
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Peter Twinn was appointed CBE in the 1980 Birthday Honours.
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Peter Twinn became interested in entomology, gaining his doctorate from the University of London in the jumping mechanism of click beetles.
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Peter Twinn co-authored A Provisional Atlas of the Longhorn Beetle, a study of the distribution of a number of beetle species.
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Peter Twinn had an interest in music and played the clarinet and viola.
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Peter Twinn married Rosamund Case, whom he had met at Bletchley Park through his interest in music, in 1944; they had a son and three daughters.