Joseph Mauborgne
1881
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1971
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Xavier High School
occupation: cryptographer, mathematician, inventor
Joseph Oswald Mauborgne (February 26, 1881 – June 7, 1971) co-invented the one-time pad with Gilbert Vernam of Bell Labs. In 1914 he published the first recorded solution of the Playfair cipher. Mauborgne became a Major General in the United States Army, and from October 1937 to his retirement in 1941 was the Army's 12th Chief Signal Officer, in command of the Signal Corps. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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