Scherbius, Arthur, 1878-1929
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Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
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found: Scherbius, Arthur. Die magnetische Induktion in Geschlossenen Spulen, 1919:title page (Arthur Scherbius)
found: 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 found: 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)
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