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Florence Newman Trefethen was born on 1921, is an American codebreaker, historian of operations research, poet. Discover Florence Newman Trefethen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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1921

Florence Marion Newman Trefethen (1921–2012) was an American codebreaker, historian of operations research, poet, and English professor.

Florence Marion Newman was born in 1921, in Philadelphia.

1943

She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1943.

She enlisted as a Naval officer during World War II, and served in the WAVES as a codebreaker.

She was part of the Magic project, whose decryptions of Japanese communications led to the ambush and death of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

1944

During this service she met Merchant Marine and later mechanical engineer Lloyd M. Trefethen; they married in 1944.

After the war, she came to Girton College, Cambridge on an Ottilie Hancock Bye Fellowship.

1946

She earned a Master of Letters there in 1946.

Trefethen worked for many years as a professor of English at Tufts University, and served for 18 years as executive editor for the Council of East Asian Studies at Harvard University.

1953

She and her husband had had two children, quilter Gwyned Trefethen in 1953 and mathematician Lloyd N. Trefethen in 1955.

1954

With Joseph F. McCloskey, Trefethen edited the book Operations Research for Management (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1954).

She wrote the first chapter of the book, an early history of the field of operations research.

1970

She is also the author of Writing a Poem (The Writer, 1970), on the process of writing poetry.

2012

She died on March 1, 2012.