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Spinal Cord Electrophysiology

Spinal Cord Electrophysiology

Published on: January 18, 2010

William Friedman, Geneticist Turned Cryptographer.

Irwin L Goldman¹

¹Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin 53706 ilgoldma@wisc.edu.

|May 7, 2017

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Cryptography
Genetics
Statistics
Information Science

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William Friedman, initially a plant geneticist, transitioned to cryptography.
He was employed at Riverbank Laboratories to investigate the Baconian cipher theory.
This theory proposed Francis Bacon as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.

Keywords:

Baconian cipher Riverbank Laboratory cryptanalysis cryptogram

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