Post by Bartosz Borucinski MEng

🇵🇱 In a memory of Henryk Zygalski - a mathematician of the University of Poznań, a cryptologist, a military counterintelligence employee (Cipher Office No. 4) and the General Staff Cipher Office. Henryk Zygalski was the inventor of the technique of perforated sheets called ′′ Zygalski sheets ". 88 years ago in December 1932 Henryk Zygalski, together with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki, broke the code of the German machine ′′ Enigma ", which contributed to at least 3 years faster end of World War II and saved about 30 millions of human life. After the end of World War II, he settled in the UK, where he struggled as a math teacher. He was honored with Honorary PhD of the University of Poland at Obczyźnie and the Grand Cross of the Order of Revival of Poland, Polonia Restituta. He died on August 30, 1978 in Liss. He was buried in London.