Charles Wynn-Williams

Charles Wynn-Williams

Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 - 30 August 1979Jeffrey A. Hughes, "Williams, Charles Eryl Wynn- (1903-1979), physicist", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004] ) was a Welsh physicist. During World War II, he worked on radar, and was later consulted for constructing codebreaking devices at Bletchley Park.

He was born Charles Eryl Wynn Williams on 5 March 1903 in Uplands, Swansea, to William Williams, a physics teacher and school inspector, and Mary Ellen, née Wynn. He attended Grove Park School in Wrexham, and University College of North Wales in Bangor from 1920. He graduated in 1923, but stayed on a year to obtain a Master's degree.

ee also

* Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)

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