Talk:Gordon Welchman

A photograph

of Gordon Welchman would be a welcome addition to the article, if one could be found. logologist|Talk 01:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

There are several in various WWII crypto books, but we should try and procure one under a free license, if possible. That'd likely involve tracking down the appropriate relatives, and I think having a good article here first would help. — Matt Crypto 02:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Useful links

• Fannie Hillsmith: http://www.sullivangoss.com/Fannie_Hillsmith/ (unsigned)

Patent(s)

• US3042199 Data processing system ~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk)

Why he was Famous

Why was he famous and why was he working in Hut 6. The article seem to miss this. The reason he was famous, was that he discovered the most important and primary weakness in the Enigma machine, which was lack of fixed points (letters encrypting to themselves) due to the reflector. Turing and several German Enigma testers of the Enigma including Gisbert Hasenjaeger missed this important weakness. This discovery enabled him to decode 10k's of messages, and is a singular achievement in mathematics and cryptography. scope_creep (talk) 17:12, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

I agree. The reason he was (or at least later became) famous needs to be included in a position of greater prominence - presumably in a second mini-para in the intro section. My problem - and I don't think I'm so very much more dumb than your average wiki-reader - is that I don't understand in sufficient (for my own satisfaction, at least) detail what you are writing about. If you would be so kind as to see that as a challenge, and even more if you would be so kind as to respond to the challenge, then ... yes please, and thank you. Success Charles01 (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Smithsonian Show- "The Codebreaker Who Hacked Hitler"

Just watched this documentary about the brilliant work that Mr. Welchman did at Bletchley Park's Hut 6, and how he was later treated terribly by the NSA. His story and what he achieved in the world of codebreaking is nothing short of amazing so its quite a shame that his name isn't as prominent as Alan Turing's is. CarusoneGirl (talk) 11:11, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

His age of death is written as 80, when it was 79!

It's sad to see that his age of death is listed wrongly, considering how much the man contributed it would be nice to see it amended please!!! It's the least a man who struggled to gain such deserved credit can be left with! DanBrown22 (talk) 19:04, 22 July 2016 (UTC)