William F. Friedman
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William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940
William Friedman
Riverbank Laboratories
SIGABA cipher machine
Bust of Friedman on display at the National Cryptologic Museum, where he is identified as the "Dean of American Cryptology".
George Fabyan
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"Colonel" George Fabyan was an American businessman who founded a private research laboratory. Fabyan's laboratory pioneered modern cryptography and was the forerunner of the NSA. The National Securit
William F. Friedman
…College (known today as Michigan State University) in East Lansing and received a scholarship to work on genetics at Cornell University. Meanwhile, George Fabyan, who ran a private research laboratory to study any personally interesting project, decided to set up his own genetics project and was referred to…
George Fabyan
Newspaper report of the 1916 trial, Chicago Tribune, depicting (left to right) Fabyan, Tuthill, Shakespeare, Selig.