Ralph Benjamin was a British scientist and electrical engineer.
12 Facts About Ralph Benjamin
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Ralph Benjamin attended boarding school in Switzerland from 1937, and was sent to England in 1939 as a refugee.
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Ralph Benjamin studied at Ellesmere College and at Imperial College London where he graduated with a 1st class honours in Electronic Engineering.
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Ralph Benjamin joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service in 1944, beginning his career at the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment.
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Ralph Benjamin trained as a navy diver to better understand some of the challenges faced by the Royal Navy.
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Ralph Benjamin was responsible for fast-track Research, Development, Procurement, and Deployment and use of equipment and techniques for Signals Intelligence.
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At GCHQ, Ralph Benjamin played an important role in the original development of "non-secret cryptography", later independently discovered by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman and termed public-key cryptography.
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Ralph Benjamin had substantial involvement in Defence Scientific Advisory Council, DSAC.
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Ralph Benjamin was given an honorary DEng by Bristol University in 2000.
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Ralph Benjamin has won the IET Heinrich Hertz premium twice, and the Marconi premium and the Clarke Maxwell premium.
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Ralph Benjamin's autobiography, called Five Lives in One, was published in 1996.
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Ralph Benjamin died on 7 May 2019 at the age of 96.