Josh Cooper (cryptographer)
Joshua Edward Synge ('Josh') Cooper CB, CMG (3 April 1901 in Fulham, London – 24 June 1981 in Buckinghamshire) was an English cryptographer.
Josh was the eldest son of Richard Edward Synge Cooper and his wife Mary Eleanor Burke who were married in Dublin exactly a year before his birth.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and King's College London.[1]
He joined the
At Bletchley Park in World War II he was head of the Air Section. He was awarded a C.M.G. in 1943 and a C.B. in 1958. Postwar Joshua wrote what some considered the best Russian grammar ever published.[2][1]
His brother Arthur (born 1916) was also a linguist (Chinese and Japanese) at the
References
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- ^ a b Jenkins 1992, p. 158.
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Action this Day edited by Michael Smith & Ralph Erskine (2001, Bantam London) ISBN 0-593-04910-1
- Jenkins, David (1992). Battle Surface! Japan's Submarine War Against Australia 1942–44. Milsons Point NSW Australia: Random House Australia. pp. 158, 169. ISBN 0-09-182638-1.
Extensive references to Josh Cooper in Station X by Michael Smith 1998