1912 - 2001
Wilma Z. Davis
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| Birthday |
12th March, 1912
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| Died |
10th December, 2001
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| Buried |
Arlington National CemeterySection: 30 Grave: 564-A-LH38°53′02.1″N 77°4′11.1″W / 38.883917°N 77.069750°W / 38.883917; -77.069750
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Occupation Text |
Cryptanalyst
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Wilma Zimmerman Davis (31 March 1912 – 10 December 2001) was an early American codebreaker during World War II. She was a leading national cryptanalyst before and during World War II and the Vietnam War. She graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Bethany College and successfully completed navy correspondence course in cryptology. She began her career as a leading cryptanalyst which spanned over 30 years in the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS), a predecessor of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the 1930s. She was hired by William Friedman, who was a US cryptographer in the Army and led the research division of the Army’s Signal Intelligence in the 1930s. Wilma Davis worked as a cryptanalyst on the Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russian problems. She also worked on the Venona project.
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