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==Positions, honours and awards== Tutte's work in World War II and subsequently in combinatorics brought him various positions, honours and awards: * 1958, Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] (FRSC); * 1971, [[Jeffery–Williams Prize]] by the [[Canadian Mathematical Society]]; * 1975, [[Henry Marshall Tory Medal]] by the Royal Society of Canada; * 1977, A conference on Graph Theory and Related Topics was held at the [[University of Waterloo]] in his honour on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday; * 1982, [[Isaak-Walton-Killam Award]] by the [[Canada Council]]; * 1987, [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS); * 1990–1996, First President of the [[Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications]];<ref>{{cite web |title=The Institute of Combinatorics & Its Applications |url=http://www.theica.org/ |publisher=ICA |access-date=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002064646/http://www.theica.org/ |archive-date=2 October 2013}}</ref> * 1998, Appointed honorary director of the [[Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research]] at the University of Waterloo;<ref>{{cite web |title=Tutte honoured by cryptographic centre |url=http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infonews/release/1998/107%20Tutte%20honored%20by%20new%20Centre%20for%20Applied%20Cryptographic%20Research,%20June%2017,%201998.html |publisher=University of Waterloo |access-date=28 September 2013}}</ref> * 2001, Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] (OC);<ref name="Order of Canada">{{cite web | title=Mr. William Thomas Tutte - Officer of the Order of Canada | website=The Governor General of Canada | date=2000-11-15 | url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-15033 | access-date=2025-04-06}}</ref> * 2001, [[CRM-Fields-PIMS prize]]. * 2016, Waterloo Region Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite news | url=https://uwaterloo.ca/combinatorics-and-optimization/news/bill-tutte-inducted-waterloo-region-hall-fame | title=Bill Tutte inducted into the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame | Combinatorics and Optimization | newspaper=Combinatorics and Optimization | date=25 April 2016 }}</ref> * 2017, Waterloo "William Tutte Way" road naming<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/mathematics-professor-and-wartime-code-breaker-honoured | title=Mathematics professor and wartime code-breaker honoured | date=12 May 2017 }}</ref> Tutte served as Librarian for the [[Royal Astronomical Society of Canada]] in 1959–1960, and asteroid [[14989 Tutte]] (1997 UB7) was named after him.<ref>{{cite web |title=Asteroid (14989) Tutte |url=http://www.rasc.ca/content/asteroid-14989 |publisher=Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |date=14 June 2011 |access-date=25 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104181311/http://www.rasc.ca/content/asteroid-14989 |archive-date=4 January 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Because of Tutte's work at Bletchley Park, Canada's [[Communications Security Establishment]] named an internal organisation aimed at promoting research into cryptology, the [[Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing]] (TIMC), in his honour in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|last=Freeze|first=Colin|title=Top secret institute comes out of the shadows to recruit top talent |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/top-secret-institute-comes-out-of-the-shadows-to-recruit-top-talent/article2154310/ |access-date=25 September 2014|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=7 September 2011|location=Toronto}}</ref> In September 2014, Tutte was celebrated in his hometown of Newmarket, England, with the unveiling of a sculpture, after a local newspaper started a campaign to honour his memory.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=13 December 2014 |url=http://billtuttememorial.org.uk/the-memorial/ |title=The Bill Tutte Memorial |publisher=Bill Tutte Memorial Fund }}</ref> Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes celebrated Tutte's work with an exhibition ''Bill Tutte: Mathematician + Codebreaker'' from May 2017 to 2019, preceded on 14 May 2017 by lectures about his life and work during the Bill Tutte Centenary Symposium.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uwaterloo.ca/combinatorics-and-optimization/news/bill-tutte-centenary-symposium-bletchley-park-0 | title=The Bill Tutte Centenary Symposium (Bletchley Park) | date=11 April 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/codebreaker-bill-tutte-to-be-celebrated-in-centenary-exhibition |title=Bletchley Park | News — New exhibition to tell story of Bill Tutte |access-date=11 May 2017 |archive-date=6 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606221506/https://bletchleypark.org.uk/news/codebreaker-bill-tutte-to-be-celebrated-in-centenary-exhibition |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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