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More info × Group 28 Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show Me No thanks, close See our Privacy Notice A code-breaker who played a significant role in decrypting German messages during the Second World War will be commemorated with a blue plaque. Joan Clarke won a scholarship to study maths at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1936. Ms Clarke, who was played by Keira Knightley in the 2014 film The Imitation Game, was a gifted mathematician.
She worked alongside fellow Cambridge graduate Alan Turing at Bletchle.
