Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo (retired)
William Tutte was born in Newmarket, England. During his early schooling, Tutte became fascinated by prime numbers, as well as by articles on astronomy and other sciences in a children's encyclopedia. He studied the natural sciences at Cambridge, but "yielded more and more to the seductions of Mathematics." His exploits cracking code during WW II gained him a fellowship at Trinity College, but he became particularly well known for his papers on Graph Theory. His fellow mathematician H.M.S. Coxeter helped him get a post at U. of Waterloo in Canada, where he has lived ever since.
BA, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1938; MSc, 1941; PhD 1948, Prof. Math. U. of Waterloo 1962-85 (retired); Dept. of Math. U. of Toronto 1948-62; author "Connectivity in Graphs" 1966; "Introduction to the Theory of Matroids" 1971; "Graph Theory" 1984; rec'd Tory Medal, Roy. Soc. Can. 1975; rec'd Izaak Walton Killam Meml. Prize 1982; Fellow, Roy. Soc. London 1987; mem. London Math. Soc.; Cambridge Philosophical Soc.; Am. Math. Soc.; Candn. Math. Soc.
Sources: In Celebration of Scientists; Canadian Who's Who, 1993
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