| LC control no. | no2019114073 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Scherbius, Arthur, 1878-1929 |
| Other standard no. | 188182718 |
| Birth date | 1878-10-30 |
| Death date | 1929-05-13 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |
| Place of death | Berlin (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Enigma cipher system Inventors Cryptography Data encryption (Computer science) |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers |
| Found in | Scherbius, Arthur. Die magnetische Induktion in Geschlossenen Spulen, 1919: title page (Arthur Scherbius) Wikipedia, 3 August 2019 (Dr. Arthur Scherbius; born 30 October 1878, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, died 13 May 1929, Berlin, Germany, aged 50; a German electrical engineer, inventor and pioneer who invented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine; He patented the invention, and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scherbius> New York times, 10 June 2019: as part of an "Overlooked no more" series of obituaries (Alan Turing; code-breaker and computer visionary whose ideas helped win World War II; leading the Bletchley Park code breakers, Turing built a huge contraption called the Bombe, mimicked the operations of the Enigma machine, and broke its codes -- their greatest initial challenge was figuring out the method of encryption of the German Enigma device, invented 20 years earlier by Arthur Scherbius, a German electrical engineer who patented it as a civilian machine to encrypt commercial messages) |
| Associated language | ger |
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